Detecting rickettsia parkeri infection from eschar swab specimens

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 778-780

  Myers, Todd ^a   Lalani, Tahaniyat ^b   Dent, Mike ^c   Jiang, Ju ^a   Daly, Patrick L ^b   Maguire, Jason D ^b   Richards, Allen L ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER PORTSMOUTH   (United States)

^c Naval Air Station   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DNA EXTRACTION; ESCHAR; HUMAN; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA PARKERI; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SWAMP; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

BACTERIA; DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC; ESCHAR; R. PARKERI; RICKETTSIA; SWAB; VECTOR-BORNE INFECTIONS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CICATRIX; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; TICKS;

EID: 84876750501     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1905.120622     Document Type: Article

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