Epidemiological characteristics of rickettsial diseases in Croatia

Military Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 64-68

  Mulić, Rosanda ^a   Mihajlović, Natalija ^b   Ropac, Darko ^c   Zorić, Ivan ^d   Alambašić, Kemal ^e  

^a Naval Medical Institute Croatia   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^c Institute of Public Health   (Croatia)

^d JOSIP JURAJ STROSSMAYER UNIVERSITY OF OSIJEK   (Croatia)

^e Istria County Institute of Public Health   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARMY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; BRILL ZINSSER DISEASE; CROATIA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MURINE TYPHUS; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RICKETTSIOSIS; TYPHUS;

EID: 32944466592     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.171.1.64     Document Type: Article

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