Identification of Shigella flexneri subserotype 1c in rural Egypt

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 873-874

  El Gendy, Atef ^a   El Ghorab, Nemat ^a   Lane, Edward M ^a   Abu Elyazeed, Remon ^a   Carlin, Nils I A ^b   Mitry, Mary M ^a   Kay, Bradford A ^a,c   Savarino, Stephen J ^a   Peruski Jr , Leonard F ^a  

^a US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3 Egypt   (Egypt)

^b SBL Vaccin AB   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DIARRHEA; EGYPT; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SEROTYPE; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 0032999822     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.3.873-874.1999     Document Type: Article

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