Seasonal epidemics of cholera inversely correlate with the prevalence of environmental cholera phages

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1702-1707

  Faruque, Shah M ^a   Naser, Iftekhar Bin ^a   Islam, M Johirul ^a   Faruque, A S G ^a   Ghosh, A N ^b   Nair, G Balakrish ^a   Sack, David A ^a   Mekalanos, John J ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage; Emergence; Epidemiology; Lysogeny; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHOLERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE; WATER SAMPLING;

BACTERIOPHAGES; CHOLERA; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; LYSOGENY; PLAQUE ASSAY; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONS; UNITED STATES; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 13444255983     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0408992102     Document Type: Article

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