Tropheryma whipplei in the environment: Survey of sewage plant influxes and sewage plant workers

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2033-2035

  Schöniger Hekele, Maximilian ^a   Petermann, Dagmar ^a   Weber, Beate ^a   Müller, Christian ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; MICROBIOLOGY;

DENTAL PLAQUES; MOUTHWASH FLUIDS; SEWAGE WATER;

SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS;

BACTERIUM; FECES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; WASTEWATER;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES; HUMAN; MOUTHWASH; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; TOOTH PLAQUE; TROPHERYMA WHIPPLEI; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DENTAL PLAQUE; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH; PREVALENCE; SEWAGE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

TROPHERYMA WHIPPLEI;

EID: 33947387542     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02335-06     Document Type: Article

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