Endocarditis por Coxiella burnetii
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Q Fever Endocarditis and New Coxiella burnetii Genotype, Saudi Arabia
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Acta Médica Colombiana
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2248-6054,0120-2448
DOI: 10.36104/amc.2012.1438