New evidence for domesticated animals as reservoirs of Chlamydia-associated community-acquired pneumonia
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Microbiology and Infection
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1198-743X
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2018.10.015