Hidden mortality attributable to Rocky Mountain spotted fever: Immunohistochemical detection of fatal, serologically unconfirmed disease

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 179, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1469-1476

  Paddock, Christopher D ^a,b   Greer, Patricia W ^a   Ferebee, Tara L ^a   Singleton Jr , Joseph ^a   McKechnie, Don B ^a   Treadwell, Tracee A ^a   Krebs, John W ^a   Clarke, Matthew J ^a   Holman, Robert C ^a   Olson, James G ^a   Childs, James E ^a   Zaki, Sherif R ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFECTION PREVENTION; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033032153     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/314776     Document Type: Article

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