Concurrent Infection with Murine Typhus and Scrub Typhus in Southern Laos—the Mixed and the Unmixed
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1 Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU), Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao PDR, 2 Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Churchill Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 3 Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, 4 Salavan Provincial Hospital, Salavan, Salavan Province, Lao PDR, 5 Faculty of Postgraduate Studies, University of Health Sciences, Vientiane, Lao PDR
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