Abstract:
:Sera from an outbreak of acute respiratory illness in a boys boarding school originally thought to have been due to psittacosis (1) have been re-examined and evidence is presented that suggests that the outbreak was caused by Chlamydia pneumoniae, strain TWAR (2).
journal_name
Epidemiol Infectjournal_title
Epidemiology and infectionauthors
Pether JV,Wang SP,Grayston JTdoi
10.1017/s0950268800030752subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1989-10-01 00:00:00pages
395-400issue
2eissn
0950-2688issn
1469-4409journal_volume
103pub_type
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