Close geographic association of human neoehrlichiosis and tick populations carrying "Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis" in eastern Switzerland

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 169-176

  Maurer, Florian P ^a   Keller, Peter M ^a,e   Beuret, Christian ^d   Joha, Cornelia ^b   Achermann, Yvonne ^b   Gubler, Jacques ^c   Bircher, Daniela ^c   Karrer, Urs ^c   Fehr, Jan ^b   Zimmerli, Lukas ^b   Bloemberg, Guido V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Kantonsspital Winterthur   (Switzerland)

^d SPIEZ LABORATORY   (Switzerland)

^e JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANDIDATUS NEOEHRLICHIA MIKURENSIS; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FEVER; FOREST; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; MALAISE; MALE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NEOEHRLICHIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NYMPH; POPULATION SIZE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RNA GENE; SWITZERLAND; TICK; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ZOONOSIS;

AGED; ANAPLASMATACEAE; ANAPLASMATACEAE INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHINA; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TICKS; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL;

ANAPLASMATACEAE; CANDIDATUS NEOEHRLICHIA MIKURENSIS; IXODIDA; NEOEHRLICHIA MIKURENSIS;

EID: 84871673779     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01955-12     Document Type: Article

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