Scrub typhus outbreak, Northern Thailand, 2006-2007

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 774-777

  Rodkvamtook, Wuttikon ^a   Gaywee, Jariyanart ^a   Kanjanavanit, Suparat ^b   Ruangareerate, Toon ^a   Richards, Allen L ^c   Sangjun, Noppadon ^a   Jeamwattanalert, Pimmada ^a   Sirisopana, Narongrid ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Thailand)

^b Nakhornping Hospital   (Thailand)

^c Naval Medical Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFANT; NONHUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RASH; SCRUB TYPHUS; THAILAND;

BACTERIA; CHIGGERS; MAMMAL RESERVOIRS; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; OUTBREAK INVESTIGATION; PARASITES; RODENTS; SCRUB TYPHUS; SMALL MAMMALS; THAILAND; TRANSMISSION VECTOR; TROMBICULID MITES; ZOONOSES;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PHYLOGENY; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA; SCRUB TYPHUS; THAILAND; TROMBICULIDAE;

EID: 84876775512     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1905.121445     Document Type: Article

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