Rickettsioses in Australia

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1166, Issue , 2009, Pages 151-155

  Graves, Stephen ^a,b   Stenos, John ^b  

^a Australian Rickettsial Reference Laboratory   (Australia)

^b JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Rickettsioses

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; Q FEVER VACCINE;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; COXIELLA BURNETII; DOG; HERPES VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PLAGUE; Q FEVER; REPTILE; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; RICKETTSIOSIS; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SCRUB TYPHUS; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; TICK; TROPICS; TYPHUS; VACCINATION;

BOS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; IXODIDA; MURINAE; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIACEAE;

EID: 67649716987     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04530.x     Document Type: Article

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