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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

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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