Human infection with Ehrlichia canis accompanied by clinical signs in Venezuela

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1078, Issue , 2006, Pages 110-117

  Perez, Miriam ^a   Bodor, Mairim ^a   Zhang, Chunbin ^b   Xiong, Qingming ^b   Rikihisa, Yasuko ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTROCCIDENTAL LISANDRO ALVARADO   (Venezuela)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

16s rRNA; Ehrlichia canis; Human; Infection; Venezuela

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EHRLICHIA CANIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CANIS;

EID: 33845738723     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1374.016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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