Clinical features and epidemiology of tick typhus in travelers

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 57-059

  Jelinek, Tomas ^a   Löscher, Thomas ^a  

^a Dept of Infect Dis and Trop Med ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUNSELING; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FEVER; GERMANY; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; LYMPHADENITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; RICKETTSIA CONORII; SOUTH AFRICA; SYMPTOM; TICK BITE; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TRAVEL; TYPHUS;

EID: 0342902207     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/7060.2001.24485     Document Type: Article

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