Shigella sonnei outbreak among Japanese travelers returning from Hawaii

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 282-283

  Terajima, Jun ^a   Tosaka, Naoki ^a   Ueno, Kumi ^a   Nakashima, Kazutoshi ^a   Kitsutani, Paul ^a   Gaynon, Mary K ^b   Park, Sarah Y ^b   Watanabe, Haruo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b HAWAII STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; FOOD INTAKE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SHIGELLA SONNEI; SHIGELLOSIS; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HAWAII; JAPAN; SHIGELLA SONNEI; TRAVEL;

EID: 33748112649     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: 13446304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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