Two cases of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis in Sardinia, Italy confirmed by PCR

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1078, Issue , 2006, Pages 548-551

  Mastrandrea, S ^a   Mura, M S ^a   Tola, S ^b   Patta, C ^b   Tanda, A ^b   Porcu, R ^b   Masala, Giovanna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA SARDEGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

A. phagocytophilum; Granulocytic ehrlichiosis; Italy; Sardinia

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; PARACETAMOL;

ADULT; AGED; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTHRALGIA; CASE REPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; EHRLICHIOSIS; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GRANULOCYTIC EHRLICHIOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; ITALY; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MYALGIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RASH; RICKETTSIOSIS; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; VOMITING;

EID: 33845788663     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1374.107     Document Type: Conference Paper

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