Short report: Throat swab samples for diagnosis of Q fever

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 147-148

  Angelakis, Emmanouil ^a   Mediannikov, Oleg ^a   Stein, Andreas ^a   Bassene, Hubert ^b   Sokhna, Cheikh ^b   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Senegal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL SWAB; OROPHARYNGEAL SWAB; Q FEVER; SENEGAL; SEROLOGY; THROAT CULTURE; EVALUATION STUDY; FRANCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; OROPHARYNX;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; COXIELLA BURNETII; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OROPHARYNX; Q FEVER; SENEGAL; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

EID: 84892710146     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.13-0490     Document Type: Article

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