Tularemia;Tularémia

Acta Medica Portuguesa

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 281-290

  Lopes De Carvalho, I ^a   Nuncio M S ^a   David De Morais, J ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DR RICARDO JORGE   (Portugal)

^b Hospital EPE Espirito Santo   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; LEARNING; REVIEW; TULAREMIA; MICROBIOLOGY;

HUMANS; TULAREMIA;

EID: 70449704661     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16460758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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