Worldwide detection and identification of new and old rickettsiae and rickettsial diseases

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 107-110

  Richards, Allen L ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic assays; Orientia; Rickettsia; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOPSY; BLOOD; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FLEA; HUMAN; LOUSE; MITE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TICK; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; DISEASE VECTORS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; PHTHIRAPTERA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; SIPHONAPTERA; TICKS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84855709511     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2011.00875.x     Document Type: Article

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