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  1. Moredun Research Institute, 408 Gilmerton Road, EH 17 7JH, Edinburgh, Scotland

    I. D. Aitken Ph.D. (B.V.M.S., M.R.C.V.S.)

  2. Veterinary Public Health, Division of Communicable Discases, World Health Organization, CH-1211, Geneva 27

    K. Bögel

  3. Cantacuzino Institute, Splaiul Independentei, 70 100, Bucuresti, Romania

    E. Cračea

  4. Centraal Diergeneeskundig Instituut, Edelhertweg 15, NL-8219 AB, Lelystadt

    D. Houwers

  5. % Virology Department, Public Health Laboratories, P.O. Box 5540, 13056, Safat, Kuwait

    J. Kazán

  6. Institut für Hygiene und Infektionskrankheiten der Tiere, Frankfurter Str. 89, D-6300, Giessen

    H. Krauss &  N. Schmeer

  7. Central Veterinary Institute, Taabornok Str. 2, H-1149, Budapest

    M. Rády

  8. Institute of Virology, Mlynska dolina 1, CSSR-81703, Bratislava

    J. Řeháček

  9. Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Schubertstr. 1, D-6300, Giessen

    H. G. Schiefer

  10. WHO Collaborating Centre for Rickettsial Reference and Research, USSR

    I. V. Tarasevich

  11. Laboratory of Rickettsial Ecology, Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology, Gamaleya Street 18, 123098, Moscow, USSR

    I. V. Tarasevich

  12. Chair in Hygiene, University of Palermo, I-90144, Palermo

    G. Tringali

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Aitken, I.D., Bögel, K., Cračea, E. et al. Q fever in Europe: Current aspects of aetiology, epidemiology, human infection, diagnosis and therapy. Infection 15, 323–327 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01647731

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