Rickettsia prowazekii and real-time polymerase chain reaction

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 428-432

  Svraka, Sanela ^a,d   Rolain, Jean Marc ^a   Bechah, Yassina ^a   Gatabazi, John ^b   Raoult, Didier ^a,c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b National Reference Laboratory   (Rwanda)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GENE TARGETING; HEALTH PROGRAM; LOUSE; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TYPHUS;

EID: 33644508368     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1203.050888     Document Type: Article

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