Rickettsioses in Europe

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 17, Issue 11-12, 2015, Pages 834-838

  Portillo, Aránzazu ^a   Santibáñez, Sonia ^a   García Álvarez, Lara ^a   Palomar, Ana M ^a   Oteo, José A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL SAN PEDRO   (Spain)

Author keywords

DEBONEL TIBOLA SENLAT; Europe; Fleas; LAR; Lice; Mites; MSF; Rickettsialpox; Rickettsiosis; Ticks; Typhus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; CTENOCEPHALIDES FELIS; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR BORNE NECROSIS ERYTHEMA LYMPHADENOPATHY; EUROPE; FEVER; FLEA BITE; HUMAN; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHANGITIS; LYMPHANGITIS ASSOCIATED RICKETTSIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AESCHLIMANNII; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; RICKETTSIA MASSILIAE; RICKETTSIA MONACENSIS; RICKETTSIA RAOULTII; RICKETTSIA RIOJA; RICKETTSIA SIBIRICA; RICKETTSIA SIBIRICA MONGOLITIMONAE; RICKETTSIA SLOVACA; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; RICKETTSIALPOX; RICKETTSIOSIS; SCALP ESCHAR NECK LYMPHADENOPATHY; TICK BORNE LYMPHADENOPATHY; TYPHUS; XENOPSYLLA; ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; CLASSIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; SCRUB TYPHUS;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; EUROPE; HUMANS; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; SCRUB TYPHUS;

EID: 84950245812     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2015.09.009     Document Type: Article

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