Q fever outbreak in homeless shelter

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1297-1299

  Brouqui, Philippe ^a,b   Badiaga, Sékéné ^b   Raoult, Didier ^a,c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; EPIDEMIC; FRANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOSLEM; Q FEVER; RISK FACTOR; SHEEP; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; URBAN AREA; WIND;

EID: 3042818683     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1007.031020     Document Type: Article

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