Rickettsia parkeri infection and other spotted fevers in the United States [1]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 353, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 626-627

  Raoult, Didier ^a   Paddock, Christopher D ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AMBLYOMMA; ASIA; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EUROPE; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIOSIS; UNITED STATES; WESTERN BLOTTING; BLOOD; CROSS REACTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE; RICKETTSIA; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER;

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CROSS REACTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 23444434935     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200508113530617     Document Type: Letter

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