Microbiological diagnosis of emerging bacterial pathogens: Anaplasma, Bartonella, Rickettsia, and Tropheryma whipplei;Diagnóstico microbiológico de las infecciones por patógenos bacterianos emergentes: Anaplasma, Bartonella, Rickettsia, Tropheryma whipplei

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 573-580

  Blanco, José Ramón ^a   Jado, Isabel ^b   Marín, Mercedes ^c   Sanfeliu, Isabel ^e   Portillo, Aránzazu ^a   Anda, Pedro ^d   Pons, Immaculada ^e   Oteo, José Antonio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL SAN PEDRO   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^d Servicio de Oncología Médica   (Spain)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Anaplasma; Bartonella; Laboratory techniques; Procedures; Rickettsia; Tropheryma whipplei

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMOSIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BARTONELLA; EHRLICHIOSIS; HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIOSIS; SEROLOGY; TROPHERYMA;

EID: 56549129625     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: 15781852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13128275     Document Type: Review

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