Various clinical types of Q-fever disease

Internal Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-2

  Watanabe, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coxiella burnetii; Post Q fever fatigue syndrome; Q fever disease; Respiratory infections; Rickettsia family

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; MACROLIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBODY TITER; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFICACY; EDITORIAL; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; LEGIONELLA; MORTALITY; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; PROGNOSIS; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; Q FEVER; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; COXIELLA BURNETII; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MINOCYCLINE; PREGNANCY; PROGNOSIS; Q FEVER; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 1142263106     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.43.1     Document Type: Editorial

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