STARI, or Masters Disease: Lone Star Tick-Vectored Lyme-like Illness

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 361-376

  Masters, Edwin J ^a   Grigery, Chelsea N ^b   Masters, Reid W ^c  

^a Ferguson Medical Group   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFALEXIN; CEFUROXIME; DOXYCYCLINE;

AMBLYOMMA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA LONESTARI; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE CARRIER; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIA EWINGII; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCUBATION TIME; LYME DISEASE; MASTERS DISEASE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; Q FEVER; REVIEW; SEROLOGY; SOUTHERN TICK ASSOCIATED RASH ILLNESS; TREATMENT DURATION; TULAREMIA; WESTERN BLOTTING; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BORRELIA INFECTIONS; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; HUMANS; IXODIDAE; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 42949133737     PISSN: 08915520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.idc.2007.12.010     Document Type: Review

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