Body lice as tools for diagnosis and surveillance of reemerging diseases

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 596-599

  Roux, Veronique ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA RECURRENTIS; FRANCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; INFESTATION; LOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERU; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIOSIS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TYPHUS;

ARACHNIDA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BORRELIA RECURRENTIS; HEXAPODA; PEDICULUS HUMANUS; PHTHIRAPTERA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 0033062181     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.3.596-599.1999     Document Type: Article

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