Incidence of tick-borne relapsing fever in west Africa: longitudinal study

Lancet

Volumn 368, Issue 9529, 2006, Pages 37-43

  Vial, Laurence ^a   Diatta, Georges ^a   Tall, Adama ^b   Hadj Ba, El ^a   Bouganali, Hilaire ^a   Durand, Patrick ^c   Sokhna, Cheikh ^a   Rogier, Christophe ^b,d   Renaud, François ^c   Trape, Jean François ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Senegal)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR DE DAKAR   (Senegal)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d SERVICE DE SANTÉ DES ARMÉES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BORRELIA; BORRELIA CROCIDURAE; BORRELIA INFECTION; COLONY FORMATION; DISEASE CARRIER; FEVER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALI; MAURITANIA; ORNITHODOROS SONRAI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENEGAL; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

EID: 33745329775     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68968-X     Document Type: Article

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