Serology of culture-confirmed cases of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 635-638

  Aguero Rosenfeld, Maria E ^a   Kalantarpour, Fatemeh ^a   Baluch, Mehdi ^a   Horowitz, Harold W ^a   Mckenna, Donna F ^a   Raffalli, John T ^a   Hsieh, Tze Chen ^a   Wu, Joseph ^a   Dumler, J Stephen ^b   Wormser, Gary P ^a  

^a WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EHRLICHIA; EQUUS CABALLUS; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 0033980094     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.38.2.635-638.2000     Document Type: Article

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