Rickettsial seroepidemiology among farm workers, Tianjin, People's Republic of China

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 938-940

  Zhang, Lijuan ^a,d   Shan, Ailan ^b   Mathew, Bobby ^c   Yin, Jieying ^b   Fu, Xiuping ^a   Zhang, Jingshan ^a   Lu, Jie ^b   Xu, Jianguo ^a   Dumler, J Stephen ^c  

^a National Institute of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^b Tianjin Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^d CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; RICKETTSIOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE;

EID: 45249117257     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1406.071502     Document Type: Article

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