Q Fever Outbreak during the Czech Army Deployment in Bosnia

Military Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 840-842

  Splino, Miroslav ^a   Beran, Jiri ^b   Chlibek, Roman ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF TOXICOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EPIDEMIC; EXPOSURE; FATIGUE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HELICOPTER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; MALAISE; PNEUMONIA; Q FEVER; SHEEP; SOLDIER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0142152661     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/168.10.840     Document Type: Article

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