Trends in cholera epidemiology

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 16-17

  Codeço, Claudia T ^a   Coelho, Flavio C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHOLERA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INFECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SHORT SURVEY; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE;

CHOLERA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1; VIRULENCE;

EID: 32044434947     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030042     Document Type: Short Survey

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