Rickettsia rickettsii transmission by a lone star tick, North Carolina

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 873-875

  Breitschwerdt, Edward B ^a   Hegarty, Barbara C ^a   Maggi, Ricardo G ^a   Lantos, Paul M ^b   Aslett, Denise M ^a   Bradley, Julie M ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE;

ADULT; AMBLYOMMA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DNA SEQUENCE; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALE; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; RICKETTSIOSIS; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; DOXYCYCLINE; HUMANS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; NORTH CAROLINA; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SKIN; TICKS;

EID: 79955748451     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1705.101530     Document Type: Article

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