Listeriosis: A model for the fine balance between immunity and morbidity

Epidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 581-587

  Lavi, Orit ^a   Louzoun, Yoram ^a   Klement, Eyal ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INCIDENCE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORBIDITY; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREGNANCY;

EID: 49849101584     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e3181761f6f     Document Type: Article

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