Arthropod-borne diseases in homeless

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1078, Issue , 2006, Pages 223-235

  Brouqui, Philippe ^a,b   Raoult, Didier ^b  

^a HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Bartonella quintana; Borrelia recurrentis; Eosinophils; Fleas; Homeless; Louse; Relapsing fever; Scabies; Ticks; Typhus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; IVERMECTIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARACHNID; BACTEREMIA; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BITE; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA RECURRENTIS; CAT; CAT SCRATCH DISEASE; CIMEX; CONFERENCE PAPER; CROWDING; CTENOCEPHALIDES; DERMACENTOR; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ECTOPARASITE; ENDOCARDITIS; FLEA; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFESTATION; IXODES; LOUSE; MITE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PEDICULOSIS; PLAGUE; RHIPICEPHALUS; RICKETTSIA AKARI; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIOSIS; RODENT; RURAL AREA; SARCOPTES; SARCOPTES SCABIEI; SCABIES; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKIN DISEASE; THREAT; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TYPHUS; WOLBACHIA;

ACARI; ARACHNIDA; ARTHROPODA; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BORRELIA RECURRENTIS; CIMEX LECTULARIUS; CTENOCEPHALIDES FELIS; DERMACENTOR; IXODES; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; MURINAE; PEDICULUS HUMANUS; PHTHIRAPTERA; PULEX IRRITANS; PULICIDAE; RHIPICEPHALUS; RICKETTSIA AKARI; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RODENTIA; SARCOPTES SCABIEI TYPE HOMINIS; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); SPIROCHAETALES; XENOPSYLLA CHEOPIS;

EID: 33845686933     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1374.041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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