Rickettsioses as paradigms of new or emerging infectious diseases

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 694-719

  Raoult, Didier ^a   Roux, Véronique ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

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Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTHROPOD; ASIA; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; EUROPE; HUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIOSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RICKETTSIA;

EID: 0030713440     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cmr.10.4.694     Document Type: Review

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