Clinical manifestations, epidemiology, and laboratory diagnosis of human monocytotropic ehrlichiosis in a commercial laboratory setting

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 891-896

  Olano, Juan P ^a   Hogrefe, Wayne ^b   Seaton, Brent ^b   Walker, David H ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b Focus Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; DOXYCYCLINE;

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; EHRLICHIOSIS; EXPOSURE; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TICK BITE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; INFANT; LABORATORIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

EID: 0141453656     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.10.5.891-896.2003     Document Type: Article

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