Murine typhus in Austin, Texas, USA, 2008

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 412-417

  Adjemian, Jennifer ^a,d,e   Parks, Sharyn ^a,b   McElroy, Kristina ^a   Campbell, Jill ^c   Eremeeva, Marina E ^a   Nicholson, William L ^a   McQuiston, Jennifer ^a   Taylor, Jeffery ^b  

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

^b TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

^c Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department   (United States)

^d FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS   (United States)

^e Office of Research and Evaluation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; DOXYCYCLINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOREXIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CAT; CHILD; CHILL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFUSION; CONJUNCTIVITIS; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEADACHE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MOUSE; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PHOTOPHOBIA; PNEUMONIA; RASH; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROLOGY; TYPHUS; UNITED STATES; VOMITING; WILDLIFE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; FLEAS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPOSSUMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEXAS; TYPHUS, ENDEMIC FLEA-BORNE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77649142555     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1603.091028     Document Type: Article

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