Rickettsial Infections and Fever, Vientiane, Laos

Rickettsia spp. are an underrecognized cause of undifferentiated febrile illness.

• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  Emerging Infectious Diseases

• Publication date

  2006-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3201/eid1202.050900PMID 16494751PMCID 3373100
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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