Q fever: New insights, still many queries

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  de Valk, H ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE VEILLE SANITAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COXIELLA BURNETII; EDITORIAL; ENDOCARDITIS; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; NETHERLANDS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PNEUMONIA; PREGNANT WOMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; Q FEVER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEROPREVALENCE;

EID: 84856250593     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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