Investigation of an outbreak of scrub typhus in the Himalayan region of India

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 208-210

  Sharma, Anuradha ^a,b   Mahajan, Sanjay ^a   Gupta, M L ^a   Kanga, Anil ^a   Sharma, Vijay ^a  

^a INDIRA GANDHI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; OX19 ANTIGEN; OX2 ANTIGEN; OXK ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; DENGUE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INDIA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MORTALITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIOSIS; SCRUB TYPHUS; WEIL FELIX TEST;

AGGLUTINATION TESTS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INDIA; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCRUB TYPHUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 26844565067     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: 13446304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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