Acute Q fever: An emerging and endemic disease in southern Taiwan

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 105-110

  Lai, Chung Hsu ^a   Huang, Chun Kai ^a   Chin, Chuen ^a   Chung, Hsing Chun ^a   Huang, Wu Shiung ^b   Lin, Chih Wen ^b   Hsu, Chuan Yuan ^b   Lin, Hsi Hsun ^a  

^a TIAN SHENG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b E DA HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABNORMAL LABORATORY RESULT; ADULT; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CHILL; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; Q FEVER; REMISSION; SPLENOMEGALY; TAIWAN; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; Q FEVER; TAIWAN;

EID: 38149131345     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540701558722     Document Type: Article

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