The science and fiction of emerging rickettsioses

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1166, Issue , 2009, Pages 133-143

  Paddock, Christopher D ^a,b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Emerging infections; Rickettsia; Rickettsiosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

ACCURACY; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BODY TEMPERATURE; CELL ADHESION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECOLOGY; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEALTH; HOSPITALIZATION; HOST; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INCIDENCE; INSECT BITE; LETHALITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; RASH; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIOSIS; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIACEAE;

EID: 67649682938     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04529.x     Document Type: Article

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