Septicemia caused by tick-borne bacterial pathogen candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1127-1129

  Fehr, Jan S ^a   Bloemberg, Guido V ^b   Ritter, Claudia ^b   Hombach, Michael ^b   Lüscher, Thomas F ^a   Weber, Rainer ^a   Keller, Peter M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; CHAPERONIN; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; RIFAMPICIN; RNA 16S; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANAPLASMATACEAE; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; DYSPNEA; HUMAN; MALAISE; MALE; NEOEHRLICHIA MIKURENSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; SEPTICEMIA; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; ANIMAL; BACTEREMIA; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; TICK;

ANAPLASMATACEAE; ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TICKS;

EID: 77954432099     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1607.091907     Document Type: Article

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