Q fever, scrub typhus, and rickettsial diseases in children, Kenya, 2011–2012

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 883-886

  Maina, Alice N ^a   Farris, Christina M ^a   Odhiambo, Antony ^a   Jiang, Ju ^a   Laktabai, Jeremiah ^b   Armstrong, Janice ^b   Holland, Thomas ^c   Richards, Allen L ^a   O’Meara, Wendy P ^b,c  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b MOI UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; KENYA; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; Q FEVER; RASH; RICKETTSIOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEROPREVALENCE; TEMPERATURE; VIRAL RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VOMITING; WESTERN BLOTTING; BLOOD; CROSS REACTION; FEVER; HISTORY; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; MICROBIOLOGY; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; SEASON;

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS REACTIONS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FEVER; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INFANT; KENYA; MALE; Q FEVER; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEASONS;

EID: 84963859152     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2205.150953     Document Type: Article

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