Rickettsia mongolotimonae: A rare pathogen in France

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 290-292

  Fournier, Pierre Edouard ^a   Tissot Dupont, Hervé ^a,b   Gallais, Hervé ^b   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b HÔPITAL DE LA CONCEPTION   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FRANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA MONGOLOTIMONAE; RICKETTSIOSIS;

EID: 0034091356     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0603.000309     Document Type: Article

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