Emergence of related nontoxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae biotype mitis strains in western Europe

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 477-480

  Funke, Guido ^a,c   Altwegg, Martin ^a   Frommelt, Lars ^b   Von Graevenitz, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ENDO Klinik   (Germany)

^c Gartner/Colleagues Laboratories   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOTYPOLOGY; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; FRANCE; GERMANY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; JOINT PROSTHESIS; NONHUMAN; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0032996620     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0503.990326     Document Type: Article

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