Borrelia recurrentis in head lice, Ethiopia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 796-798

  Boutellis, Amina ^b   Mediannikov, Oleg ^b   Bilcha, Kassahun Desalegn ^a,c   Ali, Jemal ^c   Campelo, Dayana ^d   Barker, Stephen C ^d   Raoult, Didier ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR   (Ethiopia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CYTOCHROME B; GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BORRELIA RECURRENTIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTYPE; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDICULUS; PHENOTYPE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII;

BACTERIA; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BODY LICE; BORRELIA RECURRENTIS; ETHIOPIA; HEAD LICE; RELAPSING FEVER; RICKETTSIA; TRENCH FEVER;

ANIMALS; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BORRELIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LICE INFESTATIONS; MALE; PEDICULUS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELAPSING FEVER; TRENCH FEVER;

EID: 84876755828     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1905.121480     Document Type: Article

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