Infection with Colorado tick fever virus among humans and ticks in a National Park and Forest, Wyoming, 2010

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 675-680

  Geissler, Aimee L ^a,b   Thorp, Emily ^b   Van Houten, Clayton ^b   Lanciotti, Robert S ^c   Panella, Nicolas ^c   Cadwell, Betsy L ^a   Murphy, Tracy ^b   Staples, J Erin ^c  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Wyoming Department of Health   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorado tick fever; Dermacentor andersoni; Wyoming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; COLORADO TICK FEVER; COLORADO TICK FEVER VIRUS; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR ANDERSONI; EMPLOYEE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOREST; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATIONAL PARK; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROLOGY; UNITED STATES; VIRUS LOAD; WALKING; ANIMAL; BLOOD; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; VIROLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

COLORADO TICK FEVER VIRUS; DERMACENTOR ANDERSONI; IXODIDA;

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; COLORADO TICK FEVER; COLORADO TICK FEVER VIRUS; DERMACENTOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORESTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WYOMING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907187682     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2013.1568     Document Type: Article

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