Bacteriology, taxonomy, and phylogeny of Rickettsia

Rickettsial Diseases

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-14

  Fournier, Pierre Edouard ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

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