Campylobacter jejuni multilocus sequence types in humans, Northwest England, 2003-2004

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1500-1507

  Sopwith, Will ^a   Birtles, Andrew ^a   Matthews, Margaret ^a   Fox, Andrew ^a   Gee, Steven ^b   Painter, Michael ^a   Regan, Martyn ^a   Syed, Qutub ^a   Bolton, Eric ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b Cumbria and Lancashire Health Protection Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 33749997852     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1210.060048     Document Type: Article

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