Cholera in Lima, Peru, correlates with prior isolation of Vibrio cholerae from the environment

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 146, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1067-1075

  Franco, Augusto A ^a,b   Fix, Alan D ^b   Prada, Ana ^b   Paredes, Eva ^b   Palomino, Juan C ^a   Wright, Anita C ^b   Johnson, Judith A ^b   McCarter, Robert ^b   Guerra, Humberto ^a   Glenn Morris Jr , J ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Peru)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholera; Environment; Vibrio cholerae

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHOLERA; DNA PROBE; NONHUMAN; PERU; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WASTE WATER; WATER SAMPLING;

EID: 0031474247     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009235     Document Type: Article

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