The Eco-epidemiology of Pacific Coast Tick Fever in California

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Padgett, Kerry A ^a   Bonilla, Denise ^a   Eremeeva, Marina E ^b   Glaser, Carol ^a   Lane, Robert S ^c   Porse, Charsey Cole ^a   Castro, Martin B ^a   Messenger, Sharon ^a   Espinosa, Alex ^a   Hacker, Jill ^a   Kjemtrup, Anne ^a   Ryan, Bonnie ^d   Scott, Jamesina J ^d   Hu, Renjie ^a   Yoshimizu, Melissa Hardstone ^a   Dasch, Gregory A ^e   Kramer, Vicki ^a  

^a Division of Communicable Disease Control   (United States)

^b GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Lake County Vector Control District   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFALEXIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DERMACENTOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ESCHAR; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; PACIFIC COAST TICK FEVER; RASH; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TICK BITE; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ARACHNID VECTOR; BLOOD; CALIFORNIA; CASE REPORT; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NYMPH; PATHOGENICITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; TRANSMISSION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ARACHNID VECTORS; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DERMACENTOR; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LARVA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NYMPH; PREVALENCE; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84994262675     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005020     Document Type: Article

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