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The authors reply

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Bernard La Scola  and
Didier Raoult
Bernard La Scola
Affiliation:
Unité des Rickettsies Faculté de Médecine Marseille, France
Didier Raoult
Affiliation:
Unité des Rickettsies Faculté de Médecine Marseille, France
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 25 , Issue 6 , June 2004 , pp. 454 - 455
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