Vibrio cholerae and cholera: Out of the water and into the host

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 125-139

  Reidl, Joachim ^a   Klose, Karl E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Cholera; Colonization; Infection; Toxin; Vibrio cholerae

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA VACCINE; VIRULENCE FACTOR; WATER;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ASIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHOLERA; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DISEASE COURSE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENTEROPATHY; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ESTUARY; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFECTION CONTROL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

CHOLERA; CHOLERA TOXIN; CHOLERA VACCINES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0036279098     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6445(02)00091-8     Document Type: Review

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