State of the art of diagnosis of rickettsial diseases: The use of blood specimens for diagnosis of scrub typhus, spotted fever group rickettsiosis, and murine typhus

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 433-439

  Paris, Daniel H ^a,b   Dumler, J Stephen ^c  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ELISA; Indirect immunofluorescent assay; Murine typhus; Orientia tsutsugamushi; PCR; Rickettsia; Scrub typhus; Spotted fever

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CULTURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION; MURINE TYPHUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SCRUB TYPHUS; SERODIAGNOSIS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MOLECULAR TYPING; MOUSE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS;

ANIMALS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR TYPING; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; SCRUB TYPHUS;

EID: 84978764779     PISSN: 09517375     EISSN: 14736527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QCO.0000000000000298     Document Type: Review

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