Clinical and epidemiological features of hospitalized acute Q fever cases from Split-Dalmatia County (Croatia), 1985-2002

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Lukšić, Boris ^a   Punda Polić, Volga ^a   Ivić, Ivo ^a   Bradarić, Ivica ^b   Bradarić, Nikola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPLIT   (Croatia)

^b Solin Health Center   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Clinical presentations; Coxiella burnetii; Epidemiology; Q fever

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; FEVER; HEPATITIS; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MALE; MORBIDITY; PNEUMONIA; Q FEVER; SEASHORE; SEROLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; COXIELLA BURNETII; CROATIA; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GEOGRAPHY; HEPATITIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PNEUMONIA, RICKETTSIAL; PREVALENCE; Q FEVER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 33644688351     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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