Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae serogroup O141 - Associated cholera-like diarrhea and bloodstream infection in the United States

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 187, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 866-868

  Crump, John A ^a,b   Bopp, Cheryl A ^a   Greene, Katherine D ^a   Kubota, Kristy A ^a   Middendorf, Rebecca L ^a   Wells, Joy G ^a   Mintz, Eric D ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE; SEA FOOD; SEROTYPE; TOXICITY; UNITED STATES; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; CHOLERA; CHOLERA TOXIN; DIARRHEA; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEROTYPING; UNITED STATES; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0037333316     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/368330     Document Type: Article

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