From acute Q fever to endocarditis: Serological follow-up strategy

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1337-1340

  Landais, Cécile ^a   Fenollar, Florence ^a   Thuny, Franck ^b   Raoult, Didier ^a,c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COXIELLA BURNETII; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; INFECTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER; SEROLOGY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; COXIELLA BURNETII; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; Q FEVER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROLOGY;

EID: 34248156346     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515401     Document Type: Article

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