Epidemiology and molecular analysis of group A Streptococci from patients involved in food-borne disease outbreaks in Japan between 1996 and 2003

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 202-203

  Tanaka, Daisuke ^a   Shima, Tomoko ^a   Isobe, Junko ^a   Watahiki, Masanori ^a   Matsumoto, Masakado ^b   Endoh, Miyoko ^c   Okuno, Rumi ^c   Ogata, Kikuyo ^d   Nagai, Yoshiyuki ^a  

^a TOYAMA INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Japan)

^b AICHI PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^d Oita Prefectural Institute of Health and Environment   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; EPIDEMIC; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PHARYNGITIS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOOD POISONING; HUMANS; JAPAN; PHARYNGITIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 33745503633     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: 13446304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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