Siberian Tick Typhus: Relation of the Russian Strains to Rickettsia prowazeki
- 1 January 1950
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Public Health Reports®
- Vol. 65 (12) , 383-394
- https://doi.org/10.2307/4587285
Abstract
Four strains of rickettsia, supposedly the etiological agent of Siberian tick typhus, have been studied and their relation to one another and to other rickettsiae detd. by cross-vaccination, cross-immunity, and complement-fixation tests. All 4 strains were found to be indistinguishable from each other and from the Breinl strain of epidemic typhus.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: Spontaneous Infection in the Tick Amblyomma americanumPublic Health Reports®, 1943