Rocky mountain spotted fever in Arizona: Documentation of heavy environmental infestations of Rhipicephalus sanguineus at an endemic site

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1078, Issue , 2006, Pages 338-341

  Nicholson, William L ^a   Paddock, Christopher D ^b   Demma, Linda ^a   Traeger, Marc ^c   Johnson, Brian ^c   Dickson, Jeffrey ^c   McQuiston, Jennifer ^a   Swerdlow, David ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acari; Ixodidae; Rickettsia rickettsii; RMSF; Tick survey

Indexed keywords

ACARI; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DOCUMENTATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFESTATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; TICK; UNITED STATES;

ACARI; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII;

EID: 33845705309     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1374.065     Document Type: Conference Paper

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