Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Panama

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1763-1765

  Estripeaut, Dora ^a   Aramburú, María Gabriela ^a   Sáez Llorens, Xavier ^a   Thompson, Herbert A ^b   Dasch, Gregory A ^b   Paddock, Christopher D ^b   Zaki, Sherif ^b   Eremeeva, Marina E ^b,c  

^a Hospital del Niño   (Panama)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL AMERICA; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR TYPING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANAMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 36249028821     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1311.070931     Document Type: Article

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