Concomitant tickborne encephalitis and human granulocytic ehrlichiosis

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 485-488

  Lotric Furlan, Stanka ^a   Petrovec, Miroslav ^b   Avsic Zupanc, Tatjana ^b   Strle, Franc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; EHRLICHIOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOPENIA; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROLOGY; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TICK BITE; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS;

EID: 14644443607     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1103.040776     Document Type: Article

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