Epidemiology of Vibrio parahaemolyticus outbreaks, Southern Chile

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 163-168

  Harth, Erika ^a,f   Matsuda, Luis ^a   Hernández, Cristina ^b   Rioseco, Maria L ^c   Romero, Jaime ^a   González Escalona, Narjol ^d   Martínez Urtaza, Jaime ^e   Espejo, Romilio T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b Secretaria Regional Ministerial de Salud Region Metropolitana Gobierno de Chile   (Chile)

^c Hospital Regional de Puerto Montt   (Chile)

^d CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^f HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILE; EPIDEMIC; GENOTYPE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANDEMIC; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEROTYPE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; CHILE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; SHELLFISH; VIBRIO INFECTIONS; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS;

EID: 63849273776     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1502.071269     Document Type: Article

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