Cholera in the 1990s

British Medical Bulletin

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 611-623

  Reeves, Peter R ^a   Lan, Ruiting ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN; CHOLERA VACCINE;

BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CHOLERA; CLONE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH ASIA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 0031721329     PISSN: 00071420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a011714     Document Type: Review

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