Multigenotype Q fever outbreak, the Netherlands

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 613-614

  Klaassen, Corné H W ^a   Nabuurs Franssen, Marrigje H ^a,b   Tilburg, Jeroen J H C ^a   Hamans, Maurice A W M ^c   Horrevorts, Alphons M ^a  

^a CANISIUS WILHELMINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Voedsel en Waren Autoriteit Netherlands   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MARKER;

BACTERIAL STRAIN; COXIELLA BURNETII; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HERD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; LETTER; MULTIPLE LOCUS VARIABLE NUMBER TANDEM REPEAT ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PLASMA; PNEUMONIA; Q FEVER; SAMPLING; SERUM; SPECIES CULTIVATION; TANDEM REPEAT; THROAT CULTURE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GOATS; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PREGNANCY; Q FEVER; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

EID: 65349087997     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1504.081612     Document Type: Letter

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