Evaluation of PCR-based assay in human serum samples for diagnosis of fatal cases of spotted fever group rickettsiosis

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2009, Pages 232-234

  Mendes do Nascimento, E M ^a,b   Colombo, S ^a   Nagasse Sugahara, T K ^a   Angerami, R N ^c   Resende, M R ^c   da Silva, L J ^c   Katz, G ^d   dos Santos, F C P ^a  

^a INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

^b SUPERINTENDÊNCIA DE CONTROLE DE ENDEMIAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^d Centro de Vigilância Epidemiológica Prof Alexandre Vranjac   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; RICKETTSIOSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROLOGY;

EID: 73049091390     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2008.02153.x     Document Type: Article

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