Primary humoral antibody response to Coxiella burnetii, the causative agent of Q fever.

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Published in J Clin Microbiol on August 01, 1992

Authors

D Guigno1, B Coupland, E G Smith, I D Farrell, U Desselberger, E O Caul

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1: Regional Virus Laboratory, Bristol, England.

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