Human infection with Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis, China

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1636-1639

  Li, Hao ^a   Jiang, Jia Fu ^a   Liu, Wei ^a   Zheng, Yuan Chun ^b   Huo, Qiu Bo ^b   Tang, Kun ^a   Zuo, Shuang Yan ^a   Liu, Kun ^a   Jiang, Bao Gui ^a   Yang, Hong ^a   Cao, Wu Chun ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^b Mudanjiang Forestry Central Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONIN; RNA 16S;

ADULT; AGED; ANAPLASMATACEAE; ANAPLASMATACEAE INFECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CANDIDATUS NEOEHRLICHIA MIKURENSIS; CANDIDATUS NEOEHRLICHIA MIKURENSIS INFECTION; CHINA; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FEVER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RODENT; TICK; TICK BITE;

ADULT; AGED; ANAPLASMATACEAE; ANAPLASMATACEAE INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; CHINA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IXODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84866530914     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1810.120594     Document Type: Article

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