Molecular epidemiology of Yersinia enterocolitica 4/O:3

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 529, Issue , 2003, Pages 295-302

  Fredriksson Ahomaa, Maria ^a,b   Korkeala, Hannu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL INFECTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIOSIS;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMALS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FECES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MEAT; PREVALENCE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA INFECTIONS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 0038130575     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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