Prevalence of Coxiella burnetii in bovine bulk milk samples in southern Iran

Comparative Clinical Pathology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 331-334

  Kargar, Mohammad ^a   Rashidi, Afsaneh ^a   Doosti, Abbas ^b   Ghorbani Dalini, Sadegh ^a   Najafi, Akram ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bovine milk; C. burnetii; Iran; Outer membrane protein

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877633207     PISSN: 16185641     EISSN: 1618565X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00580-012-1406-9     Document Type: Article

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