Results of a 10-year survey of louse-borne relapsing fever in southern Ethiopia: A decline in endemicity

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 467-469

  Ramos, J M ^a,b   Malmierca, E ^a,c   Reyes, F ^a   Tesfamariam, A ^a  

^a Gambo General Rural Hospital   (Ethiopia)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ELCHE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA RECURRENTIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; ETHIOPIA; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; OUTPATIENT; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; TYPHUS;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ETHIOPIA; HOUSING; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LICE; RELAPSING FEVER; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS; WAR;

PHTHIRAPTERA;

EID: 47549102314     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485908X300887     Document Type: Article

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