Short report: Diagnosis of tick-borne relapsing fever by the quantitative buffy coat fluorescence method

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 738-739

  Chatel, Giuseppina ^a   Gulletta, Maurizio ^a   Matteelli, Alberto ^a   Marangoni, Antonella ^b   Signorini, Liana ^a   Oladeji, Oladayo ^a   Caligaris, Silvio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BLOOD SAMPLING; BORRELIA INFECTION; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LEPTOSPIRA; MALE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 0032902483     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1999.60.738     Document Type: Article

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