Wind in November, Q fever in December

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1264-1269

  Tissot Dupont, Hervé ^a   Amadei, Marie Antoinette ^b   Nezri, Meyer ^b   Raoult, Didier ^a,c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b Centre Hospitalier Genéral   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FRANCE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; LAMB; NONHUMAN; Q FEVER; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WINTER; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 3042779420     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1007.030724     Document Type: Article

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