Evidence of infection in humans with Rickettsia typhi and Rickettsia felis in Catalonia in the northeast of Spain

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1078, Issue , 2006, Pages 159-161

  Nogueras, María Mercedes ^a,b   Cardeñosa, Neus ^a   Sanfeliu, Isabel ^b   Muñoz, Tomás ^c   Font, Bernat ^a   Segura, Ferran ^a  

^a Department of Internal Medicine   (Spain)

^b Servicio de Oncología Médica   (Spain)

^c Departments of Pediatrics   (Spain)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Murine typhus; Public health; Rickettsia felis; Rickettsia typhi; Seroprevalence; Spain

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; RICKETTSIOSIS; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SERUM; SPAIN;

MURINAE; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIA TYPHI;

EID: 33845696038     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1374.028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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