Emergence of new Salmonella Enteritidis phage types in Europe? Surveillance of infections in returning travellers

BMC Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Nygård, Karin ^a   de Jong, Birgitta ^a   Guerin, Philippe J ^a,b   Andersson, Yvonne ^a   Olsson, Agneta ^a   Giesecke, Johan ^a  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SALMONELLOSIS; SWEDEN; TOURISM; TRAVEL;

EID: 13844297756     PISSN: 17417015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-2-32     Document Type: Article

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