Molecular epidemiology of C. diptheriae strains during diffrent phases of the diptheria epidemic in Belarus

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kolodkina, Valentina ^a   Titov, Leonid ^a   Sharapa, Tatyana ^a   Grimont, Francine ^b   Grimont, Patrick A D ^b   Efstratiou, Androulla ^c  

^a Research Institute for Epidemiology & Microbiology RIEM   (Belarus)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BELARUS; BIOTYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DIPHTHERIA; EPIDEMIC; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RIBOTYPING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TONSILLITIS;

CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DIPHTHERIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; REPUBLIC OF BELARUS; RIBOTYPING;

EID: 33748623357     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-6-129     Document Type: Article

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