Prevalence of community-acquired respiratory tract infections associated with Q fever in Japan

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 247-252

  Takahashi, Hiroshi ^a   Tokue, Yutaka ^a   Kikuchi, Toru ^a   Kobayashi, Takao ^a   Gomi, Kazuhiro ^a   Goto, Ikuo ^b   Shiraishi, Hiroyuki ^b   Fukushi, Hideto ^c   Hirai, Katuya ^c   Nukiwa, Toshihiro ^a   Watanabe, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Miyagi Pref Inst for Public Health   (Japan)

^c GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Community acquired respiratory infection; Multicenter cohort study; Q fever

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHITIS; CAT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; Q FEVER; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 11144357195     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2003.11.002     Document Type: Article

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