Outbreak investigation of Scrub Typhus in Himachal Pradesh (India)

Journal of Communicable Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 277-283

  Kumar, Kaushal ^a   Saxena, V K ^a   Thomas, T G ^a   Lal, Shiv ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHILD; ECTOPARASITOSIS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FLEA; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INDIA; INFANT; IXODES; LOUSE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RODENT DISEASE; SCRUB TYPHUS; TROMBICULIDAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; IXODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PHTHIRAPTERA; RODENT DISEASES; SCRUB TYPHUS; SIPHONAPTERA; TROMBICULIDAE;

EID: 30944438256     PISSN: 00195138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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