Q fever endocarditis in Israel and a worldwide review

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 41-49

  Siegman Igra, Yardena ^a,c   Kaufman, Oren ^a   Keysary, Avi ^b   Rzotkiewicz, Sabine ^a   Shalit, Itamar ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ISRAEL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISRAEL; LITERATURE; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; Q FEVER; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 0030950957     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365549709008663     Document Type: Article

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