Prevalence of Coxiella burnetii antibodies in blood donors in Ankara, Central Anatolia, Turkey

New Microbiologica

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 527-534

  Kilic, Selcuk ^a   Yilmaz, Gul Ruhsar ^b   Komiya, Tomoyoshi ^c   Kurtoglu, Yasemin ^b   Karakoc, Esra Alp ^b  

^a Refik Saydam Hygiene Center   (Turkey)

^b ANKARA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^c KITASATO INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood donors; Coxiella burnetii; ELISA; IFA; Q fever; Seroprevalence

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD DONOR; COXIELLA BURNETII; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; Q FEVER; STATISTICS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BLOOD DONORS; COXIELLA BURNETII; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; Q FEVER; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TURKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

ANIMALIA; COXIELLA BURNETII;

EID: 57349122016     PISSN: 11217138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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