What's eating you? Chiggers

Cutis

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 350-352

  Elston, Dirk M ^a  

^a GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HUMAN; INFESTATION; SCRUB TYPHUS; TROMBICULIDAE;

ANIMALS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; SCRUB TYPHUS; TROMBICULIASIS; TROMBICULIDAE;

EID: 33745836724     PISSN: 00114162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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