Human louse-transmitted infectious diseases

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 332-337

  Badiaga, S ^a,b   Brouqui, P ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

Author keywords

Bartonella quintana; Body louse; Borrelia recurrentis; Epidemic typhus; Homelessness; Lice; Refugees; Relapsing fever; Rickettsia prowazekii; Trench fever

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; ALTITUDE; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANOREXIA; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA RECURRENTIS; CLOTHING; COUGHING; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EPIDEMIC; ETHIOPIA; FATIGUE; HAIR FOLLICLE; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INCUBATION TIME; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LIFE CYCLE; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PEDICULOSIS; PEDICULOSIS CAPITIS; PEDICULUS; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PHTHIRUS; PLAGUE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PUBIC PEDICULOSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; SCALP PRURITUS; SEROLOGY; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SHOCK; SKIN BIOPSY; SOCIAL STATUS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRENCH FEVER; TYPHUS; VECTOR CONTROL; WESTERN BLOTTING; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BORRELIA RECURRENTIS; PEDICULUS HUMANUS; PHTHIRAPTERA; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84858707278     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2012.03778.x     Document Type: Review

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