Rickettsia 364D: A newly recognized cause of eschar-assodated illness in California

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 541-548

  Shapiro, Marc R ^a   Fritz, Curtis L ^b   Tait, Karen ^c   Paddock, Christopher D ^e   Nicholson, William L ^e   Abramowicz, Kyle F ^e   Karpathy, Sandor E ^e   Dasch, Gregory A ^e   Sumner, John W ^e   Adern, Patricia V ^e   Scott, Jamesina J ^d   Padgett, Kerry A ^b   Zaki, Sherif R ^e   Eremeeva, Marina E ^e  

^a St Helena Hospital Clearlake   (United States)

^b Division of Communicable Disease Control   (United States)

^c Lake County Health Services Department   (United States)

^d Lake County Vector Control District   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARM EDEMA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CASE REPORT; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR OCCIDENTALIS; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHEMA; ESCHAR; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA 364D; RICKETTSIA RHIPICEPHALI; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; TISSUE NECROSIS; UNITED STATES;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CALIFORNIA; DERMACENTOR; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; SKIN ULCER;

EID: 75749156223     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/649926     Document Type: Article

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