Evaluation of clinical specimens for Rickettsia, Bartonella, Borrelia, Coxiella, Anaplasma, Franciscella and Diplorickettsia positivity using serological and molecular biology methods

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 82-91

  Sekeyova, Zuzana ^a   Subramanian, Geetha ^b   Mediannikov, Oleg ^b   Diaz, Marco Quevedo ^a   Nyitray, Alexander ^d   Blaskovicova, Hana ^c   Raoult, Didier ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c Public Health Authority of the Slovak Republic   (Slovakia)

^d Infectology ^*  (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Human sera; Immunofluorescent antibody assay; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; DOXYCYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BARTONELLA ALSATICA; BARTONELLA ELIZABETHAE; BARTONELLA GRAHAMII; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BARTONELLA VINSONII; BARTONELLA WEISSI; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA RECURENTIS; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COXIELLA BURNETII; DIPLORICKETTSIA MASSILIENSIS; FEMALE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN MONOCYTIC EHRLICHIOSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; RICKETTSIA MONGOLOTIMONAE; RICKETTSIA RAOULTII; RICKETTSIA SLOVACA; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SLOVAKIA; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TYPHUS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SLOVAKIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855682465     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2011.00907.x     Document Type: Article

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