Ehrlichioses: Anaplasmosis and Human Ehrlichiosis

Disease-a-Month

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 346-354

  St Clair, Kristina ^a   Decker, Catherine F ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE; INSECTICIDE; RIFAMPICIN; SULFONAMIDE;

AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BLOOD SMEAR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIA EWINGII; EHRLICHIA MURIS; FEVER; HEADACHE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; HUMAN MONOCYTIC EHRLICHIOSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LEUKOPENIA; LYME DISEASE; MENINGITIS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MORBIDITY; MYALGIA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMALS; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; HUMANS; TICKS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861134622     PISSN: 00115029     EISSN: 15578194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.disamonth.2012.03.006     Document Type: Article

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