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Alternative Title:
Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:
Wang, Jin-Mei ; Hudson, Bernard J. ; Watts, Matthew R. ; Karagiannis, Tom ; Fisher, Noel J. ; ... More +
Wang, Jin-Mei ; Hudson, Bernard J. ; Watts, Matthew R. ; Karagiannis, Tom ; Fisher, Noel J. ; Anderson, Catherine ; Roffey, Paul Less -
Description:
We report 3 cases of Queensland tick typhus (QTT) and 1 case of African tick bite fever in which the causative rickettsiae were detected by PCR of eschar and skin lesions in all cases. An oral mucosal lesion in 1 QTT case was also positive.
Subjects:
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Adult Aged Animals Dispatch Female Humans Insect Bites And Stings Male Middle Aged Mouth Mucosa Polymerase Chain Reaction Rickettsia Infections Sequence Analysis, DNA Skin Specimen Handling Tick-Borne Diseases Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne
Source:
Emerg Infect Dis. 15(6):963-965.
Document Type:
Journal Article
Place as Subject:
Queensland, Australia ; South Africa
Queensland, Australia ; South Africa Less -
Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:08f3d1ad9ef521a1c4825690ff541f13e1bb46615a30951e25e9dcb7d76a8d10
Download URL:
https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/17697/cdc_17697_DS1.pdf
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