Old and new tick-borne rickettsioses

International Health

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-25

  Renvoisé, Aurélie ^a   Mediannikov, Oleg ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Emerging infectious disease; Eschar; Inoculation; Rickettsioses; Ticks

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; DOXYCYCLINE; JOSAMYCIN;

AFRICAN TICK BITE FEVER; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTHROPOD; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; CELL CULTURE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GEOGRAPHY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; LYMPHANGITIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA PARKERI; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; RICKETTSIA SLOVACA; RICKETTSIOSIS; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; TAXONOMY; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 71549138680     PISSN: 18763413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inhe.2009.03.003     Document Type: Review

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