Tick-borne Diseases: Tick-borne Spotted Fever Rickettsioses in Africa

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 531-544

  Cazorla, Cécile ^a   Socolovschi, Cristina ^b   Jensenius, Mogens ^c   Parola, Philippe ^b  

^a Department of Internal Medicine   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACARICIDE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DOXYCYCLINE; INSECT REPELLENT; KETOLIDE; MACROLIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE;

AFRICA; AFRICAN TICK BITE FEVER; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AESCHLIMANNII; RICKETTSIA AFRICAE; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; RICKETTSIA MASSILIAE; RICKETTSIA MONACENSIS; RICKETTSIA RAOULTII; RICKETTSIA RHIPICEPHALI; RICKETTSIA SIBIRICA; RICKETTSIA SLOVACA; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; RICKETTSIOSIS; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

EID: 50049114398     PISSN: 08915520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.idc.2008.03.009     Document Type: Review

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