Pertussis outbreak in a US military community: Kaiserslautern, Germany, April-June 2005

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1476-1478

  Mancuso, James D ^a,d   Snyder, Andrea ^a   Stigers, James ^c   Ortman, Brian ^c   Aldous, Wade ^b   Whoolery, Tim ^b   Deye, Greg ^b   Bradley, K ^b  

^a US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine Europe   (Germany)

^b LANDSTUHL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

^c Ramstein Air Base   (Germany)

^d Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERTUSSIS VACCINE;

ARMY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; PERTUSSIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 40949152362     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/522999     Document Type: Article

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