Short report: Detection of rickettsioses and Q fever in Sri Lanka

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 711-712

  Angelakis, Emmanouil ^a   Munasinghe, Aruna ^b   Yaddehige, Iranga ^b   Liyanapathirana, Veranja ^c   Thevanesam, Vasanthi ^c   Bregliano, Anne ^a   Socolovschi, Cristina ^a   Edouard, Sophie ^a   Fournier, Pierre Edouard ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a   Parola, Philippe ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b District General Hospital   (Sri Lanka)

^c Teaching Hospital Kandy   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COXIELLA BURNETII; FLEA BITE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; Q FEVER; RASH; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIOSIS; SRI LANKA; TICK BITE; ANIMAL; BITES AND STINGS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RICKETTSIA; SCRUB TYPHUS; TICK;

COXIELLA BURNETII; IXODIDA; MURINAE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIACEAE; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); TYPHUS GROUP;

ANIMALS; BITES AND STINGS; COXIELLA BURNETII; HUMANS; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; Q FEVER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RICKETTSIA; SCRUB TYPHUS; SRI LANKA; TICKS;

EID: 84860506426     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2012.11-0424     Document Type: Article

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