Vibrio cholerae pathogenic clones

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1758-1760

  Salim, Anna ^a   Lan, Ruiting ^b   Reeves, Peter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHOLERA; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTILOCUS ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 27744535247     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1111.041170     Document Type: Article

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