Review article: Unresolved problems related to scrub typhus: A seriously neglected life-threatening disease

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 301-307

  Paris, Daniel H ^a   Shelite, Thomas R ^b   Day, Nicholas P ^a   Walker, David H ^b  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12P40; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VACCINE;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEROPREVALENCE; VACCINATION; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEGLECTED DISEASE; PARASITE VECTOR;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HUMANS; NEGLECTED DISEASES; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; SCRUB TYPHUS;

EID: 84881533838     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.13-0064     Document Type: Review

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