Pathologic changes during acute Q fever: Influence of the route of infection and inoculum size in infected guinea pigs

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2443-2447

  Scola, Bernard L A ^a   Lepidi, Hubert ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GUINEA PIG; INOCULATION; MYOCARDITIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER;

EID: 0030962997     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.6.2443-2447.1997     Document Type: Article

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