Far Eastern tick-borne rickettsiosis: Identification of two new cases and tick vector

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1078, Issue , 2006, Pages 80-88

  Mediannikov, Oleg Y ^a,b,c   Sidelnikov, Yuri ^b   Ivanov, Leonid ^d   Fournier, Pierre Edouard ^c   Tarasevich, Irina ^a   Raoult, Didier ^c  

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

^b FAR EASTERN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d N N BLOKHIN NATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER OF ONCOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Far East; Rickettsia heilongjiangensis; Russia; Tick borne rickettsiosis

Indexed keywords

DNA; DOXYCYCLINE;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE CARRIER; FAR EAST; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IXODES PERSULCATUS; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIOSIS; SCREENING TEST; SEROCONVERSION; SKIN BIOPSY; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ACARI; CANDIDATUS RICKETTSIA PRINCIPIS; HAEMAPHYSALIS; IXODES PERSULCATUS; IXODIDA; RICKETTSIA HEILONGJIANGENSIS; RICKETTSIA TARASEVICHIAE; RICKETTSIACEAE;

EID: 33845700563     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1374.010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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