Acute and Chronic Q Fever in Patients with Cancer

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 127-130

  Raoult, Didier ^a,b   Brouqui, P ^a,b   Marchou, B ^a,b   Gastaut, J A ^a,b  

^a TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b CHU PURPAN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; OFLOXACIN; PEFLOXACIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CANCER; CELL CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COXIELLA BURNETII; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFECTION; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COXIELLA BURNETII; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, CHRONIC; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEOPLASMS; Q FEVER; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0026531322     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/14.1.127     Document Type: Article

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