High prevalence of Vibrio cholerae non-O1 carrying heat-stable- enterotoxin-encoding genes among Vibrio isolates from a temperate-climate river basin of central italy

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2934-2939

  Caldini, Gabriella ^a,d   Neri, Angela ^b   Cresti, Stefania ^c   Boddi, Vieri ^b   Rossolini, Gian Maria ^c   Lanciotti, Eudes ^b  

^a Agenzia Regionale Per Protez D   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^d ARPAT   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; ITALY; PH MEASUREMENT; PREVALENCE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER SAMPLING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO METSCHNIKOVII; VIBRIO MIMICUS;

EID: 0030873226     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.7.2934-2939.1997     Document Type: Article

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