Serpulina pilosicoli, waterbirds and water: Potential sources of infection for humans and other animals

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 219-225

  Oxberry, S L ^a   Trott, D J ^a   Hampson, D J ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAKE WATER; METRONIDAZOLE; TAP WATER;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIRD; BRACHYSPIRA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOG; ELECTROPHORESIS; FECES ANALYSIS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LAKE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SURVIVAL TIME; SWINE; TEMPERATURE; TIME; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERPULINA; SPIROCHAETALES INFECTIONS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0031708981     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268898008863     Document Type: Article

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