Rickettsiae in ixodid ticks, Sicily [8]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 509-511

  Beninati, Tiziana ^a   Genchi, Claudio ^a   Torina, Alessandra ^b   Caracappa, Santo ^b   Bandi, Claudio ^a   Lo, Nathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA SICILIA A MIRRI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS REACTION; HUMAN; ITALY; LETTER; LYMPHADENOPATHY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIOSIS; TICK;

EID: 14644431000     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1103.040812     Document Type: Letter

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