Q fever in Japan: An update review

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 298-306

  Porter, Sarah Rebecca ^a   Czaplicki, Guy ^b   Mainil, Jacques ^a   Horii, Yoichiro ^c   Misawa, Naoaki ^c   Saegerman, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b Association régionale de Santé et d'Identification animales   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Animals; Birds; Cats; Clinical aspects; Coxiella burnetii; Epidemiology; Humans; Q fever; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

BOVIDS; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COXIELLA BURNETII; HUMAN; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; Q FEVER; REVIEW; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CHILD; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MILK; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; Q FEVER; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COXIELLA BURNETII;

EID: 79953058241     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2010.11.017     Document Type: Review

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