Rickettsial diseases: From Rickettsia-arthropod relationships to pathophysiology and animal models

Future Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 223-236

  Bechah, Yassina ^a   Capo, Christian ^a   Mege, Jean Louis ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Animal models; Arthropods; Rickettsioses; Spotted fever; Typhus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DOXYCYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

APE; ARTHROPOD; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; BONE MARROW APLASIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INHALATION; INOCULATION; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; RICKETTSIOSIS; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; RODENT; TYPHUS; UNGULATE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INVERTEBRATA; MURINAE; MUS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIACEAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 45449100844     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/17460913.3.2.223     Document Type: Review

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