Diseases from North America: Focus on tick-borne infections

Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 74-77

  Nathavitharana, Ruvandhi R ^a   Mitty, Jennifer A ^b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOVAQUONE; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; QUININE; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANAPLASMOSIS; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BABESIA MIYAMOTOI INFECTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; HUMAN MONOCYTIC EHRLICHIOSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PIROPLASMOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RASH; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SEROLOGY; SKIN BIOPSY; TICK ASSOCIATED RASH ILLNESS; TICK BORNE DISEASE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; HUMANS; NORTH AMERICA; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

EID: 85003044514     PISSN: 14702118     EISSN: 14734893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.14-6-74     Document Type: Article

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