Expression of Concern: Coxiella burnetii in Humans and Ticks in Rural Senegal (PLoS Negl Trop Dis 4(4): e654. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000654);Coxiella burnetii in humans and ticks in rural Senegal

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Mediannikov, Oleg ^a   Fenollar, Florence ^a   Socolovschi, Cristina ^a   Diatta, Georges ^b   Bassene, Hubert ^b   Molez, Jean François ^b   Sokhna, Cheikh ^b   Trape, Jean François ^b   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Senegal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA VARIEGATUM; ARTICLE; BREAST MILK; CELL CULTURE; COXIELLA BURNETII; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYALOMMA MARGINATUM; HYALOMMA TRUNCATUM; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; ORNITHODOROS SONRAI; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; Q FEVER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS DECOLORATUS; RHIPICEPHALUS EVERTSII; RHIPICEPHALUS GUILHONI; RURAL AREA; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SENEGAL; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SERUM; TICK; TICK INFESTATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FECES; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL POPULATION;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COXIELLA BURNETII; DNA, BACTERIAL; FECES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILK, HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; Q FEVER; RURAL POPULATION; SENEGAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TICKS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952414746     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0010955     Document Type: Erratum

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