Epidemiological, clinical and laboratory characteristics of patients with human granulocytic anaplasmosis in Slovenia

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 118, Issue 21-22, 2006, Pages 708-713

  Lotrič Furlan, Stanka ^a   Rojko, Tereza ^a   Petrovec, Miroslav ^b   Avšič Županc, Tatjana ^b   Strle, Franc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Clinical presentation; Human granulocytic anaplasmosis; Laboratory findings; Slovenia; Tick borne infection

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DOXYCYCLINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALAISE; MALE; MYALGIA; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SLOVENIA; THROMBOCYTOPHERESIS; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SLOVENIA;

EID: 33845677529     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00508-006-0700-4     Document Type: Article

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