Waterfowl - The missing link in epidemic and pandemic cholera dissemination?

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Halpern, Malka ^a   Senderovich, Yigal ^a   Izhaki, Ido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHOLERA; COPEPOD; DUCKS AND GEESE; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PANDEMIC; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; TILAPIA;

ANATIDAE;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ANSERIFORMES; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHOLERA; COPEPODA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HUMANS; TILAPIA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 55449087187     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000173     Document Type: Note

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