Vibrio vulnificus Infection: Epidemiology, Clinical Presentations, and Prevention

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 118-119

  Mitra, Amal K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; STEROID;

BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORNEA ULCER; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGLOTTITIS; GASTROENTERITIS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MYOSITIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RISK FACTOR; SEA FOOD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEPTICEMIA; SYMPTOM; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WOUND INFECTION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; SHELLFISH; VIBRIO INFECTIONS; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

EID: 1242291753     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SMJ.0000092520.47509.C2     Document Type: Editorial

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