Rocky mountain spotted fever, Colombia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1058-1060

  Hidalgo, Marylin ^a   Orejuela, Leonora ^b   Fuya, Patricia ^a   Carrillo, Pilar ^c   Hernandez, Jorge ^d   Parra, Edgar ^a   Keng, Colette ^e   Small, Melissa ^e   Olano, Juan P ^e   Bouyer, Donald ^e   Castaneda, Elizabeth ^a   Walker, David ^e   Valbuena, Gustavo ^b,e,f  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^c Secretaria de Salud de Cundinamarca   (Colombia)

^d Hospital Salazar Villeta   (Colombia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^f University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; COLOMBIA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER;

EID: 34447276728     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1307.060537     Document Type: Article

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