Incident Tick-Borne Infections in a Cohort of North Carolina Outdoor Workers

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 302-308

  Wallace, John W ^a   Nicholson, William L ^b   Perniciaro, Jamie L ^b   Vaughn, Meagan F ^a   Funkhouser, Sheana ^a   Juliano, Jonathan J ^c   Lee, Sangmi ^d   Kakumanu, Madhavi L ^d   Ponnusamy, Loganathan ^d   Apperson, Charles S ^d   Meshnick, Steven R ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Rickettsia; Serology; Tick(s)

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; PERMETHRIN;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOTHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NORTH CAROLINA; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AMBLYOMMII; RICKETTSIA PARKERI; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SEROCONVERSION; SEROPREVALENCE; TICK BORNE DISEASE; WORKER; ADULT; CLASSIFICATION; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; TICK BITES; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; TICK BITES; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

EID: 84969703294     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2015.1887     Document Type: Article

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