Short report: Serological evidence of infection with Rickettsia typhi and Rickettsia felis among the human population of Catalonia, in the northeast of Spain

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 123-126

  Nogueras, María Mercedes ^a   Cardeñosa, Neus ^a   Sanfeliu, Isabel ^a   Muñoz, Tomás ^b   Font, Bernat ^a   Segura, Ferran ^a  

^a Hospital Universitari Parc Taulí   (Spain)

^b Corporació Sanitària del Parc Taulí ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; RICKETTSIOSIS; RURAL AREA; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SEX RATIO; SPAIN; TYPHUS; URBAN AREA; AGING; BLOOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIA TYPHI;

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; RURAL POPULATION; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SPAIN; TYPHUS, ENDEMIC FLEA-BORNE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33646010329     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2006.74.123     Document Type: Article

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