Nosocomial transmission of human granulocytic anaplasmosis in China

JAMA

Volumn 300, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 2263-2270

  Zhang, Lijuan ^a   Liu, Yan ^b   Ni, Daxin ^c   Li, Qun ^b   Yu, Yanlin ^d   Yu, Xue Jie ^e   Wan, Kanglin ^a,f   Li, Dexin ^a,f   Liang, Guodong ^a,f   Jiang, Xiugao ^a,f   Jing, Huaiqi ^a   Run, Jing ^d   Luan, Mingchun ^a   Fu, Xiuping ^a   Zhang, Jingshan ^a   Yang, Weizhong ^c   Wang, Yu ^c   Dumler, J Stephen ^g   Feng, Zijian ^c   Ren, Jun ^b   Xu, Jianguo ^a,f,h   more..

^a China CDC   (China)

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

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

^d Yijishan Hospital   (China)

^e University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^f State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control   (China)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h NONE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE;

AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEROCONVERSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 56649117358     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2008.626     Document Type: Article

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