Update on Q fever, including Q fever endocarditis

Current Clinical Topics in Infectious Diseases

Volumn , Issue 22, 2002, Pages 97-124

  Marrie, Thomas J ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACTIVE IMMUNIZATION; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BIRD; CAT; CATTLE; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GOAT; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; Q FEVER; RABBIT; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SHEEP; TICK; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIRDS; CATS; CATTLE; COXIELLA BURNETII; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; GOATS; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEPATITIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY, ACTIVE; MICE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; Q FEVER; RABBITS; SHEEP; TICKS;

EID: 0036987795     PISSN: 01953842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
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