Screening and toxigenic corynebacteria spread [3]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 520-521

  Crowcroft, Natasha S ^a   White, Joanne M ^a   Efstratiou, Androulla ^a   George, Robert ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL STRAIN; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DIPHTHERIA; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LETTER; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; SCREENING; VACCINATION;

EID: 33644547670     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1203.050601     Document Type: Letter

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