Reported cholera in the United States, 1992-1994: A reflection of global changes in cholera epidemiology

JAMA

Volumn 276, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 307-312

  Mahon, Barbara E ^a,b   Mintz, Eric D ^a   Greene, Katherine D ^a   Wells, Joy G ^a   Tauxe, Robert V ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CARBENICILLIN; CEFALOTIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FURAZOLIDONE; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAFURAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHOLERA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FOOD INTAKE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAVEL; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; UNITED STATES; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0029950226     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.276.4.307     Document Type: Article

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