Investigation of the 1994-5 Ukrainian vibrio cholerae epidemic using molecular methods

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 15-29

  Clark, C G ^a,b   Kravetz, A N ^a,c   Dendy, C ^b   Wang, G ^a   Tyler, K D ^b   Johnson, W M ^a,b  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b LAB CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^c Gromashevsky Research Institute of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN; RIVER WATER;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PAKISTAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RIBOTYPING; UKRAINE; VIBRIO; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS;

CHOLERA; CHOLERA TOXIN; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; UKRAINE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0031684239     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268898008814     Document Type: Article

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