Altitude-dependent Bartonella quintana genotype C in head lice, Ethiopia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2357-2359

  Angelakis, Emmanouil ^a   Diatta, Georges ^b   Abdissa, Alemseged ^c   Trape, Jean François ^b   Mediannikov, Oleg ^a   Richet, Hervé ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Senegal)

^c JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHIOPIA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDICULUS; TRENCH FEVER; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

EID: 84930472982     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1712.110453     Document Type: Article

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