Q fever in Bulgaria and Slovakia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 388-394

  Serbezov, V ^a   Kazár, Jan ^b   Novkirishki, V ^a   Gatcheva, N ^a   Kovacova E ^c   Voynova, V ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER OF INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES   (Bulgaria)

^b INST OF PREV AND CLINICAL MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

^c INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULGARIA; COXIELLA BURNETII; ENDOCARDITIS; GOAT; Q FEVER; REVIEW; SERODIAGNOSIS; SLOVAKIA; VACCINATION; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 0033040193     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0503.990309     Document Type: Review

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