Comparative value of blood and skin samples for diagnosis of spotted fever group rickettsial infection in model animals.

Levin, Michael L; Snellgrove, Alyssa N; Zemtsova, Galina E

Levin, Michael L; Snellgrove, Alyssa N; Zemtsova, Galina E.

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Levin ML; Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States. Electronic address: MLevin@cdc.gov.
Snellgrove AN; Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States.
Zemtsova GE; Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States.

Ticks Tick Borne Dis ; 7(5): 1029-1034, 2016 07.

Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27282078

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Blood/microbiology; Rickettsia Infections/diagnosis; Skin/microbiology; Tick-Borne Diseases/diagnosis; Animals; Arthropod Vectors; DNA, Bacterial/genetics; Disease Models, Animal; Ixodidae/microbiology; Molecular Diagnostic Techniques; Polymerase Chain Reaction; Retrospective Studies; Rickettsia/genetics; Rickettsia rickettsii/genetics; Tick-Borne Diseases/microbiology

Key words

Diagnosis; Guinea pig; Rocky Mountain spotted fever; Skin biopsies; Spotted fever rickettsiosis

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Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Rickettsia Infections / Skin / Blood / Tick-Borne Diseases Type of study: Diagnostic_studies / Observational_studies / Prognostic_studies Limits: Animals Language: En Journal: Ticks Tick Borne Dis Year: 2016 Type: Article

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