Iraq's biological warfare agents: A comprehensive analysis

Critical Reviews in Microbiology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 179-204

  Shoham, D ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN; BOTULINUM TOXIN A; MYCOTOXIN; RICIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN; TETANUS TOXIN;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; BRUCELLA; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; IRAN; IRAQ; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MYCOTOXICOSIS; NAIRO VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; POXVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; REVIEW; ROTAVIRUS; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; SMALLPOX VIRUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; YELLOW FEVER FLAVIVIRUS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

AJELLOMYCES CAPSULATUS; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BRUCELLA; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; FLAVIVIRUS; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NAIROVIRUS; POXVIRIDAE; PSEUDOMONAS; ROTAVIRUS; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VARIOLA VIRUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; YELLOW FEVER VIRUS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 0033784171     PISSN: 1040841X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10408410008984176     Document Type: Review

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