Rickettsial and Other Tick-Borne Infections

Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 27-38

  Flicek, Barbara Fouts ^a  

^a Internal Medicine of Newton County   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; EHRLICHIOSIS; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; REVIEW; RICKETTSIOSIS; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TULAREMIA;

ANIMALS; EHRLICHIOSIS; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TICKS; TULAREMIA;

EID: 33847322982     PISSN: 08995885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccell.2006.11.001     Document Type: Review

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