Various Clinical Types of Q-fever Disease
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Various clinical types of Q-fever disease.
Q-fever is the generic name for infections mainly occurring as respiratory tract infections with Coxiella burnetii, a obligate intracellular infectious agent belonging to Coxiella genus which is a near relation of Rickettsia family, and its most common type of disease is respiratory infections such as pneumonia and bronchitis. Q-fever has the mortality of 1 to 2%, which is a self-limiting disea...
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عنوان ژورنال: Internal Medicine
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0918-2918,1349-7235
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.43.1