Infectious diarrheal outbreaks in the Israeli military, 1988-2002

Military Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 634-637

  Schwaber, Mitchell J ^a   Grotto, Itamar ^a   Balicer, Ran D ^a   Davidovitch, Nadav ^a   Zelikovitch, Yifat ^a   Huerta, Michael ^a  

^a MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARMY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DIARRHEA; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIC; FOOD PROCESSING; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; ISRAEL; NONHUMAN; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 22244492664     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.170.7.634     Document Type: Article

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