Tickborne relapsing fever in Southern Iran, 2011–2013

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1078-1080

  Naddaf, Saied Reza ^a   Ghazinezhad, Behnaz ^a   Sedaghat, Mohammad Mehdi ^b   Asl, Hossein Masoumi ^c   Cutler, Sally Jane ^d  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL EDUCATION   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE;

ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA DUTTONII; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA MICROTI; BORRELIA RECURRENTIS; CHILL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FATIGUE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IRAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWEATING; TICKBORNE RELAPSING FEVER; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HISTORY; MICROBIOLOGY; RELAPSING FEVER; TRANSMISSION;

BORRELIA; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; IRAN; RELAPSING FEVER;

EID: 84929408644     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2106.141715     Document Type: Article

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