Tick-borne lymphadenopathy (tibola) acquired in southwestern germany

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Rieg, Siegbert ^a   Schmoldt, Sabine ^b   Theilacker, Christian ^a   de With, Katja ^a   Wölfel, Silke ^b   Kern, Winfried V ^a   Dobler, Gerhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; SULTAMICILLIN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GERMANY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHADENITIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALAISE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; SCALP; SEROCONVERSION; SKIN ULCER; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TICK BITE; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TICK BORNE LYMPHADENOPATHY; ANIMAL; DERMACENTOR; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION;

AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ARACHNID VECTORS; DERMACENTOR; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS;

EID: 79958168397     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-11-167     Document Type: Article

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