Acute Q Fever and Scrub Typhus, Southern Taiwan
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چکیده
Acute Q fever and scrub typhus are zoonoses endemic to southern Taiwan. Among the 137 patients with acute Q fever (89, 65.0%) or scrub typhus (43, 31.4%), we identified 5 patients (3.6%) who were co-infected with Coxiella burnetii and Orientia tsutsugamushi.
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عنوان ژورنال:
دوره 15 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009