Rickettsial diseases in Russia

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1078, Issue , 2006, Pages 48-59

  Tarasevich, Irina V ^a   Mediannikov, Oleg Y ^a,b,c  

^a GAMALEYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b FAR EASTERN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Epidemic typhus; Rickettsia; Rickettsiosis; Russia; Spotted fever group; Tick borne rickettsiosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; NURSING HOME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIA SIBIRICA; RICKETTSIOSIS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEROLOGY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TYPHUS;

ACARI; IXODIDA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA CONORII SUBSP. CASPIA; RICKETTSIA HEILONGJIANGENSIS; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIA SIBIRICA; RICKETTSIACEAE;

EID: 33845698496     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1374.006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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