Q fever outbreak in the Village of Noćaj, Srem county, Vojvodina province, Serbia, January to February 2012

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2012, Pages

  Medic S ^a   Nitzan Kaluski, D ^b   Seguljev Z ^c   Obrenovic J ^d   Rudan, P ^e   Lazarevic M ^a   JandricKocic J ^a   Sajenkovic D ^a   Pusic I ^f   Bugarski, D ^f   Vidanovic D ^g   Sekler M ^g  

^a General Hospital Sremska Mitrovica   (Serbia)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH OF VOJVODINA   (Serbia)

^d Institute of Public Health of Serbia   (Serbia)

^e Institute of Public Health   (Serbia)

^f Scientific Veterinary Institute   (Serbia)

^g Veterinary Specialized Institute Kraljevo   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COUGHING; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE CONTROL; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; MYLAGIA; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; Q FEVER; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERBIA;

EID: 84862897337     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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