Q fever cluster among raw milk drinkers in Michigan, 2011

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1387-1389

  Signs, Kimberly A ^a   Stobierski, Mary Grace ^a   Gandhi, Tejal N ^b  

^a MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMPICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INFLIXIMAB; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ADULT ONSET STILL DISEASE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COXIELLA BURNETII; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MILK; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER; RAW FOOD; SEROLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; COXIELLA BURNETII; DAIRYING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; MILK; Q FEVER;

EID: 84868018874     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis690     Document Type: Article

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