Relapsing fever in Ardabil, a northwestern province of Iran

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 141-145

  Arshi, Shahnam ^a   Majidpoor, Ali ^a   Sadeghi, Homayoun ^a   Asmar, Mehdi ^a   Emdadi, Darioush ^a   Derakhshan, Mohammad Hossein ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ardabil; Borrelia; Borrelia baltazardi; Borrelia persica; Iran; Ornithodorus tholozani; Ornithodorus tick; Relapsing fever; Tickborne relapsing fever

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANEMIA; ARGAS; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA PERSICA; CHI SQUARE TEST; CHILD; CHILL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; EOSINOPHILIA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; HEADACHE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; IRAN; JAUNDICE; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LOUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NONHUMAN; PETECHIA; PHOTOPHOBIA; PREVALENCE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCLERA DISEASE; SWEATING; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE; ZOOLOGY;

EID: 0036661981     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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