Could flies explain the elusive epidemiology of campylobacteriosis?

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Ekdahl, Karl ^a,b   Normann, Bengt ^c   Andersson, Yvonne ^a  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c County Medical Office for Communicable Disease Control ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CAMPYLOBACTER; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FAMILY SIZE; FLY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; RISK FACTOR; SALMONELLOSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SWIMMING; TROPICS; WATER CONTAMINATION; ANIMAL; CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS; FECES; MICROBIOLOGY; MUSCIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEASON;

ANIMALS; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; DISEASE VECTORS; FECES; HUMANS; MUSCIDAE; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS;

EID: 25444522681     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-5-11     Document Type: Article

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