Looking for Tropheryma whipplei source and reservoir in Rural Senegal

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 339-343

  Keita, Alpha Kabinet ^a,b   Mediannikov, Oleg ^a,b   Ratmanov, Pavel ^a,b   Diatta, Georges ^a,b   Bassene, Hubert ^a,b   Roucher, Clémentine ^a,b   Tall, Adama ^c   Sokhna, Cheikh ^a,b   Trape, Jean François ^a,b   Raoult, Didier ^a,b   Fenollar, Florence ^a,b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b Campus Commun UCAD IRD ^*  (Senegal)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR DE DAKAR   (Senegal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; DISEASE CARRIER; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; FECES ANALYSIS; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RURAL AREA; SANITATION; SENEGAL; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII; WILDLIFE;

DATA COLLECTION; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENT; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FECES; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SENEGAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TROPHERYMA; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 84874068385     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2012.12-0614     Document Type: Article

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