Histologic features and immunodetection of African tick-bite fever eschar

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1332-1337

  Lepidi, Hubert ^a   Fournier, Pierre Edouard ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a,b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AFRICAN TICK BITE FEVER; ARTICLE; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNODETECTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INOCULATION; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RICKETTSIA AFRICAE; RICKETTSIOSIS; SEROLOGY;

EID: 33748988213     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1209.051540     Document Type: Article

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