Acute Q fever and scrub typhus, southern Taiwan

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1659-1661

  Lai, Chung Hsu ^a,b   Chen, Yen Hsu ^b   Lin, Jiun Nong ^a,b   Chang, Lin Li ^b   Chen, Wei Fang ^a   Lin, Hsi Hsun ^a,c  

^a I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; COXIELLA BURNETII; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; Q FEVER; SCRUB TYPHUS; TAIWAN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CROSS REACTIONS; HUMANS; Q FEVER; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEROLOGIC TESTS; TAIWAN;

EID: 70349970518     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1510.090007     Document Type: Article

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