Tick-borne rickettsioses in America: Unanswered questions and emerging diseases

Current Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 40-50

  Parola, Philippe ^a   Labruna, Marcelo B ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CROSS REACTION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AFRICAE; RICKETTSIA MASSILIAE; RICKETTSIA PARKERI; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; RICKETTSIA SANGUINEUS; RICKETTSIOSIS; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SEROLOGY; TICK BITE; TICK BORNE RICKETTSIOSIS; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

EID: 67649399078     PISSN: 15233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-009-0007-5     Document Type: Review

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