Rickettsia slovaca in Dermacentor marginatus and tick-borne lymphadenopathy, Tuscany, Italy

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 817-820

  Selmi, Marco ^a   Bertolotti, Luigi ^b   Tomassone, Laura ^b   Mannelli, Alessandro ^b,c  

^a Osservatorio Permanente Per Patologie a Trasmissione Vettoriale   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c EUROPEAN FOOD SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE;

ADULT; ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR PARUMAPERTUS; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; GENE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GTLA GENE; HUMAN; ITALY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OMPA GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA SLOVACA; RICKETTSIOSIS; SEASON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN MANIFESTATION; TEMPERATURE; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

EID: 45249103531     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1405.070976     Document Type: Article

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