Clinical, epidemiological, and microbiological features of Vibrio vulnificus biogroup 3 causing outbreaks of wound infection and bacteraemia in Israel

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Volumn 354, Issue 9188, 1999, Pages 1421-1424

  Bisharat, Naiel ^a   Agmon, Vered ^b   Finkelstein, Renato ^c   Raz, Raul ^a   Ben Dror, Gad ^c   Lerner, Larisa ^b   Soboh, Soboh ^d   Colodner, Raul ^a   Cameron, Daniel N ^e   Wykstra, David L ^e   Swerdlow, David L ^e   Farmer III, J J ^e  

^a HAEMEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b Government Central Laboratories   (Israel)

^c RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d Poriya Hospital   (Israel)

^e Foodborne and Diarrheal Dis Branch   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BIOTYPOLOGY; CELLULITIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0033598652     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(99)02471-X     Document Type: Article

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