Infection with hemotropic Mycoplasma species in patients with or without extensive arthropod or animal contact

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3237-3241

  Maggi, Ricardo G ^a   Compton, Sarah M ^a   Trull, Chelsea L ^a   Mascarelli, Patricia E ^a   Robert Mozayeni, B ^b   Breitschwerdt, Edward B ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Translational Medicine Group PC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ADULT; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPERYTHROZOONOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA HAEMATOPARVUM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOUSE; VETERINARIAN;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884766222     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01125-13     Document Type: Article

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