The expanding spectrum of eschar-associated rickettsioses in the United States

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 146, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 641-648

  Cragun, W Chad ^a   Bartlett, Brenda L ^c   Ellis, Michael W ^d   Hoover, Aaron Z ^a   Tyring, Stephen K ^c,e   Mendoza, Natalia ^c,f   Vento, Todd J ^b   Nicholson, William L ^g   Eremeeva, Marina E ^g   Olano, Juan P ^h,i   Rapini, Ronald P ^h   Paddock, Christopher D ^g  

^a San Antonio Military Medical Center ^*  (United States)

^b SAN ANTONIO MILITARY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR CLINICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^d Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSIDAD EL BOSQUE   (Colombia)

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

^h University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DNA; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AMPLICON; ANTIBODY TITER; ARM; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CHILL; DERMIS; EPIDERMIS; ESCHAR ASSOCIATED RICKETTSIOSIS; FATIGUE; FEVER; FOOT; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; LETHARGY; LIMB; LYMPHOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MYALGIA; NEUTROPHIL; PAPULE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; PUSTULE; RASH; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA PARKERI; RICKETTSIOSIS; SHOULDER; SKIN BIOPSY; TRUNK; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SKIN; TEXAS;

EID: 77953850967     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 15383652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archdermatol.2010.48     Document Type: Article

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