Low incidence of tick-borne rickettsiosis in a Spanish Mediterranean area

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1078, Issue , 2006, Pages 200-202

  Guerrero, Antonio ^a   Gimeno, Flor ^a   Colomina, Javier ^a   Molina, Mercé ^a   Oteo, Jose Antonio ^b   Cuenca, Maria ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE LA RIBERA   (Spain)

^b Hospital de La Rioja   (Spain)

Author keywords

Incidence; Mediterranean; Rickettsiosis; Spain; Tick borne

Indexed keywords

BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE LYMPHOMA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; RICKETTSIOSIS; SERUM; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ACARI;

EID: 33845690478     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1374.039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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