Rocky mountain spotted fever in dogs, Brazil

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 458-460

  Labruna, Marcelo B ^a   Kamakura, Orson ^b   Moraes Filho, Jonas ^a   Horta, Mauricio C ^a   Pacheco, Richard C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Instituto Dog Bakery de Medicina Animal   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; DOXYCYCLINE; FIPRONIL; IMIDOCARB; IMIDOCARB DIPROPIONATE; ISOMETHEPTENE; METRONIDAZOLE; PREDNISONE; RANITIDINE; VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FEMALE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LEUKOPENIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SEROCONVERSION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BRAZIL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; DOXYCYCLINE; FEMALE; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER;

EID: 63849150188     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1503.081227     Document Type: Article

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