Food as a vehicle of transmission of cholera

Journal of Diarrhoeal Diseases Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-9

  Rabbani, G H ^a   Greenough III, W B ^b  

^a ICDDRB Clinical Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholera; Disease transmission; Food; Review literature; Vibrio cholerae

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ASIA; CHOLERA; COLD; DAIRY PRODUCT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD HANDLING; GENETICS; HUMAN; MEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; MILLET; PH; POULTRY; REVIEW; RICE; RISK FACTOR; SEA FOOD; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VEGETABLE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ANIMALS; ASIA; CHOLERA; COLD; DAIRY PRODUCTS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LATIN AMERICA; MEAT; ORYZA SATIVA; PANICUM; POULTRY; RISK FACTORS; SEAFOOD; UNITED STATES; VEGETABLES; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0033085744     PISSN: 02538768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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