Epidemiology of trench fever: A pilot study among the homeless in Marseille;Epidemiologie de la fievre des tranchees: Une enquete pilote aupres des 'sans domicile fixe' marseillais

Cahiers Sante

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 275-278

  Rotily, Michel ^a   Obadia, Yolande ^a   Tissot Dupont, Hervé ^b   Cavailler, Philippe ^a   Raoult, Didier ^c  

^a OBSERVATOIRE RÉGIONAL DE LA SANTÉ PROVENCE ALPES CÔTE D AZUR   (France)

^b Hopital Felix Houphouet Boigny   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FRANCE; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RICKETTSIOSIS; SEROLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; AGED; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BLOOD; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOUSING; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYGIENE; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT STUDY; POLICY; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; FEMALE; FRANCE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMELESS PERSONS; HOUSING; HUMANS; HYGIENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MEDICAL INDIGENCY; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC POLICY; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TRENCH FEVER; VOLUNTARY HEALTH AGENCIES;

EID: 0029909463     PISSN: 11575999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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