Typhus group Rickettsiosis, Texas, USA, 2003–2013

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 645-648

  Murray, Kristy O ^a   Evert, Nicole ^b   Mayes, Bonny ^b   Fonken, Eric ^b   Erickson, Timothy ^a   Garcia, Melissa N ^a   Sidwa, Tom ^b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE FATALITY RATE; CHILD; CHILL; COMPLEMENT FIXATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MALE; MURINE TYPHUS; MYALGIA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNITED STATES; VIRUS HEMAGGLUTINATION; ANIMAL; CTENOCEPHALIDES; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; HEALTH SURVEY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OPOSSUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RAT; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; TEXAS; TIME FACTOR; VETERINARY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CTENOCEPHALIDES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPOSSUMS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RATS; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; TEXAS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85015776688     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2304.160958     Document Type: Article

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