High seroprevalence for typhus group rickettsiae, southwestern Tanzania

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 317-320

  Dill, Tatjana ^a   Dobler, Gerhard ^b,c   Saathoff, Elmar ^a,b   Clowes, Petra ^a,d   Kroidl, Inge ^a,d   Ntinginya, Elias ^d   Machibya, Harun ^e   Maboko, Leonard ^d   Löscher, Thomas ^a   Hoelscher, Michael ^a,b,d   Heinrich, Norbert ^a,b  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d NIMRMbeya Medical Research Centre   (Tanzania)

^e Regional Medical Office   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; RICKETTSIOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROPREVALENCE; TANZANIA;

EID: 84930485760     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1902.120601     Document Type: Article

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