Tick paralysis by Ixodes holocyclus in a Japanese traveler returning from Australia

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 990, Issue , 2003, Pages 357-358

  Inokuma, Hisashi ^a   Takahata, Hiroaki ^b   Fournier, Pierre Edouard ^c   Brouqui, Philippe ^c   Raoult, Didier ^c   Okuda, Masaru ^a   Onishi, Takafumi ^a   Nishioka, Kazue ^b   Tsukahara, Masato ^d  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Australia; Ixodes holocyclus; Japan; Tick paralysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IXODES; IXODES HOLOCYCLUS; JAPAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; TICK BITE; TRAVEL;

ACARI; IXODES; IXODES HOLOCYCLUS;

EID: 0037714859     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2003.tb07390.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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