Cholera: Nice bacteria and bad viruses

Current Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1389-1391

  Levin, Bruce R ^a   Tauxe, Robert V ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

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EID: 0030292977     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(96)00738-5     Document Type: Article

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