Louse-borne epidemic typhus

Rickettsial Diseases

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 51-62

  Houhamdi, Linda ^a   Raoult, Didier ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

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