Shiga-Toxin Producing Escherichia Coli in Vietnam

Tropical Medicine and Health

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 339-341

  Nguyen, Binh Minh ^a   Phung, Dac Cam ^a   Nakasone, Noboru ^b   Toma, Claudia ^b   Higa, Naomi ^b   Iwanaga, Masaaki ^b   Iyoda, Sunao ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

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EID: 24944555595     PISSN: 13488945     EISSN: 13494147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2149/tmh.32.339     Document Type: Article

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