Seasonal and environmental determinants of leptospirosis and scrub typhus in small mammals captured at a U.S. Military training site (Dagmar North), republic of Korea, 2001-2004

Military Medicine

Volumn 174, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1061-1067

  Payne, Kevin S ^a   Klein, Terry A ^b   Otto, Jean L ^c   Kim, Heung Chui ^d   Chong, Sung Tae ^d   Ha, Si Jung ^e   Gu, Se Hun ^e   Jeong, Ji Hae ^e   Baek, Luck Ju ^e   Song, Jin Won ^e  

^a WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Force Health Protection   (United States)

^c Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center   (United States)

^d Unit 15247   (United States)

^e Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; ECOSYSTEM; KOREA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MAMMAL; MICROBIOLOGY; MILITARY MEDICINE; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; TYPHUS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ECOSYSTEM; KOREA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMALS; MILITARY MEDICINE; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEASONS; TYPHUS, ENDEMIC FLEA-BORNE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 73349093780     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-00-3809     Document Type: Article

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