Brucellosis: A worldwide zoonosis

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 58-64

  Boschiroli, Maria Laura ^a   Foulongne, Vincent ^a   O'Callaghan, David ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BRUCELLA VACCINE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BLOOD CULTURE; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; MORBIDITY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SERODIAGNOSIS; STRESS; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSPOSON; VACCINATION; ZOONOSIS;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRUCELLA;

EID: 0035155006     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(00)00165-X     Document Type: Review

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