Asymptomatic Yersinia pestis infection, China [5]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1494-1496

  Li, Min ^a   Song, Yajun ^b   Li, Bei ^b   Wang, Zuyun ^a   Yang, Ronghai ^a   Jiang, Lingxiao ^b   Yang, Ruifu ^b  

^a Plague Prevention and Control Department Qinghai Institute for Endemic Diseases Prevention and Control   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE;

ANIMAL HUNTING; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PASSIVE HEMAGGLUTINATION; PLAGUE; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; RODENT; SCIURIDAE; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; WESTERN BLOTTING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 23944496559     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1109.041147     Document Type: Letter

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