Moving from Q fever to C. burnetii infection
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Q Fever Endocarditis and New Coxiella burnetii Genotype, Saudi Arabia
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Epidemiology and Infection
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0950-2688,1469-4409
DOI: 10.1017/s0950268815002976