Some epidemiologic features of Campylobacter jejuni/coli infections in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the war

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 458-460

  Uzunovic Kamberovic, S ^a  

^a Lab for Sanitary/Clin Microbiology   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; FECES ANALYSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN AREA; WAR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037532659     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0691.2003.00579.x     Document Type: Letter

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