Survey of three bacterial louse-associated diseases among rural Andean communities in Peru: Prevalence of epidemic typhus, trench fever, and relapsing fever

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 434-436

  Raoult, Didier ^a,b,c   Birtles, Richard J ^a,b,c   Montoya, Manuel ^a,b,c   Perez, Enrique ^a,b,c   Tissot Dupont, Herve ^a,b,c   Roux, Véronique ^a,b,c   Guerra, Humberto ^a,b,c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b Hospital Regional Del Cusco   (Peru)

^c INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA RECURRENTIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFESTATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PERU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIOSIS; RURAL POPULATION; TYPHUS;

EID: 0032787903     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/520229     Document Type: Article

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