Detection of antibodies against spotted fever group Rickettsia (SFGR), typhus group Rickettsia (TGR), and Coxiella burnetii in human febrile patients in the Philippines

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 26-28

  Amor Camer, Gerry ^d   Alejandria, Marissa ^a   Amor, Miguel ^b   Satoh, Hiroshi ^c   Muramatsu, Yasukazu ^c   Ueno, Hiroshi ^c   Morita, Chiharu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES MANILA   (Philippines)

^b Rakuno Gakuen University ^*  (Philippines)

^c RAKUNO GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d University of Eastern Philippines   (Philippines)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHILIPPINES; Q FEVER; RICKETTSIA JAPONICA; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; RICKETTSIOSIS; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEROPREVALENCE; SHORT SURVEY;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; COXIELLA BURNETII; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; MALE; PHILIPPINES; Q FEVER; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TYPHUS, EPIDEMIC LOUSE-BORNE;

EID: 0038476207     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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