Q fever, spotted fever group, and typhus group rickettsioses among hospitalized febrile patients in Northern Tanzania

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Prabhu, Malavika ^a   Nicholson, William L ^b   Roche, Aubree J ^b   Kersh, Gilbert J ^b   Fitzpatrick, Kelly A ^b   Oliver, Lindsay D ^b   Massung, Robert F ^b   Morrissey, Anne B ^a   Bartlett, John A ^a,c   Onyango, Jecinta J ^d   Maro, Venance P ^d,e   Kinabo, Grace D ^d,e   Saganda, Wilbrod ^f   Crump, John A ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

^e KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Tanzania)

^f Mawenzi Regional Hospital   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; CHILD; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFANT; JAUNDICE; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASON; TANZANIA; TYPHUS; ZOONOSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COXIELLA BURNETII; FEMALE; FEVER; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; Q FEVER; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; TANZANIA;

EID: 79961216497     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cir411     Document Type: Article

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