Clinical Characteristics and Molecular Subtyping of Vibrio vulnificus Illnesses, Israel

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1875-1882

  Zaidenstein, Ronit ^a   Sadik, Chantal ^b   Lerner, Larisa ^b   Valinsky, Lea ^b   Kopelowitz, June ^b   Yishai, Ruth ^b   Agmon, Vered ^b   Parsons, Michele ^c   Bopp, Cheryl ^c   Weinberger, Miriam ^a,d  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; CARP; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FISH; FISH DISEASE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ISRAEL; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCIFORMES; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SMEGMAMORPHA; TILAPIA; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; VIBRIOSIS; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; CARPS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; FISH DISEASES; FISHES; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCIFORMES; SMEGMAMORPHA; TILAPIA; VIBRIO INFECTIONS; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; WOUND INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60549101922     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1412.080499     Document Type: Article

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