Murine typhus: An unrecognized suburban vectorborne disease

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 913-918

  Civen, Rachel ^a   Ngo, Van ^a  

^a Acute Communicable Disease Control Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE; OFLOXACIN; QUINOLONE; TETRACYCLINE;

CLINICAL FEATURE; CTENOCEPHALIDES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFECTION CONTROL; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESERVOIR; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; SEROLOGY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TYPHUS; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CAT; CAT DISEASE; DISEASE CARRIER; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FLEA; INFESTATION; MICROBIOLOGY; OPOSSUM; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION; SEASON;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CALIFORNIA; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FLEAS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; OPOSSUMS; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; SEASONS; SUBURBAN POPULATION; TEXAS; TYPHUS, ENDEMIC FLEA-BORNE;

EID: 40749109391     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/527443     Document Type: Review

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