Ticks and tickborne bacterial diseases in humans: An emerging infectious threat

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 897-928

  Parola, P ^a   Raoult, D ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; TICK; TICK BITE; TULAREMIA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; HUMANS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TICKS;

EID: 0035867078     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/319347     Document Type: Review

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