Tickborne relapsing fever diagnosis obscured by Malaria, Togo

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 117-123

  Nordstrand, Annika ^a   Bunikis, Ignas ^a   Larsson, Christer ^a   Tsogbe, Kodjo ^b   Schwan, Tom G ^c   Nilsson, Mikael ^d   Bergström, Sven ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Association Protestante des Oeuvres Médico Sociales et Humanitaires du Togo   (Togo)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BLOOD SAMPLING; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE; GLPQ GENE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MICROSCOPY; MORTALITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCREENING; SPIROCHETE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TICK; TOGO;

EID: 33846094010     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1301.060670     Document Type: Article

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