Q Fever: Still more queries than answers

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 719, Issue , 2011, Pages 133-143

  Delsing, Corine E ^a   Warris, Adilia ^a   Bleeker Rovers, Chantal P ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; OFLOXACIN; Q FEVER VACCINE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COXIELLA BURNETII; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG POTENTIATION; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INCIDENCE; INJECTION SITE REACTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER; SEROCONVERSION; TOOTH DISCOLORATION; VACCINATION; VASCULAR SURGERY; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; COXIELLA BURNETII; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; Q FEVER;

EID: 83455210237     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0204-6_12     Document Type: Article

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