Cluster of sylvatic epidemic typhus cases associated with flying squirrels, 2004-2006

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1005-1011

  Chapman, Alice S ^a,c   Swerdlow, David L ^a   Dato, Virginia M ^b   Anderson, Alicia D ^a   Moodie, Claire E ^a   Marriott, Chandra ^b   Amman, Brian ^a   Hennessey, Morgan ^a   Fox, Perry ^b   Green, Douglas B ^a   Pegg, Eric ^a   Nicholson, William L ^a   Eremeeva, Marina E ^a   Dasch, Gregory A ^a  

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

^b PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c Scott AFB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; FLYING; FOREST; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MYALGIA; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHOTOPHOBIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RISK FACTOR; SQUIRREL; SWEATING; TYPHUS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANIMALS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PENNSYLVANIA; QUESTIONNAIRES; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; SCIURIDAE; TYPHUS, EPIDEMIC LOUSE-BORNE;

EID: 67650653270     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1507.081305     Document Type: Article

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