Other tick-borne rickettsioses

Rickettsial Diseases

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 139-162

  Mediannikov, Oleg ^a,b   Parola, Philippe ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b GAMALEYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

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