Bartonella Species Isolated from Rodents, Greece [5]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 963-964

  Tea, Afrodite ^a   Alexiou Daniel, Stella ^b   Papoutsl, Andronlkl ^a   Papa, Anna ^a   Antonladis, Antonis ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b AHEPA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BARTONELLA; BLOOD SAMPLING; GENOTYPE; LETTER; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 2142755327     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1005.030430     Document Type: Letter

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