Q fever in human and livestock populations in Oman

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 990, Issue , 2003, Pages 221-225

  Scrimgeour, E M ^a,d   Al Ismaily, S I N ^b   Rolain, J M ^c   Al Dhahry, S H S ^a   El Khatim, H S ^a   Raoult, D ^c  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^b Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Oman   (Oman)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d Department of Medicine ^*  (Oman)

Author keywords

Coxiella burnetii; Goats; Oman; Q fever; Sheep

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; COXIELLA BURNETII; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GOAT; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIVESTOCK; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OMAN; PERICARDITIS; Q FEVER; RURAL AREA; SEROPREVALENCE; SHEEP; URBAN AREA;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS; COXIELLA BURNETII; OVIS ARIES; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 0038391030     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2003.tb07366.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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