Laboratory Diagnosis of Rickettsioses: Current Approaches to Diagnosis of Old and New Rickettsial Diseases

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Journal J Clin Microbiol

Specialty Microbiology

Date 1997 Nov 14

PMID 9350721

Citations 148

Authors

B La Scola

D Raoult

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