Q fever as a biological weapon

Seminars in Respiratory Infections

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 183-195

  Kagawa, Frank T ^a   Wehner, John H ^b   Mohindra, Vibha ^b  

^a SANTA CLARA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN; ROXITHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CLINICAL FEATURE; COXIELLA BURNETII; ENDOCARDITIS; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; LYSOSOME; MACROPHAGE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MONOCYTE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER; REVIEW; SEROCONVERSION; SERODIAGNOSIS; ZOONOSIS;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BIOTERRORISM; COXIELLA BURNETII; HUMANS; Q FEVER; UNITED STATES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 0141506046     PISSN: 08820546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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