Human anaplasmosis and Anaplasma ovis variant

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1031-1032

  Chochlakis, Dimosthenis ^a   Ioannou, Ioannis ^b   Tselentis, Yannis ^a   Psaroulaki, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b VETERINARY SERVICES   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFIXIME; CEFRADINE; DOXYCYCLINE;

ADULT; ANAPLASMA OVIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URINE CULTURE;

ADULT; ANAPLASMA OVIS; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BITES AND STINGS; CEFTRIAXONE; CILASTATIN; CYPRUS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOXYCYCLINE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; FEVER; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IMIPENEM; PHYLOGENY; TICKS;

EID: 77952685475     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1606.090175     Document Type: Letter

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