Cholera outbreak, Laos, 2007

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 745-746

  Sithivong, Noikaseumsy ^a   Izumiya, Hidemasa ^b   Munnalath, Khampheuy ^a   Phouthavane, Traykhouane ^b   Chomlasak, Khampheng ^a   Sisavath, Lay ^a   Vongdouangchanh, Arounnapha ^a   Vongprachanh, Phengta ^a   Watanabe, Haruo ^b   Ohinishi, Makoto ^b  

^a National Center for Laboratory and Epidemiology   (Laos)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN;

BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHOLERA; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LAOS; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TOXIN ANALYSIS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER CONTAMINATION;

CHOLERA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; LAOS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1;

EID: 77950634973     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1604.091493     Document Type: Letter

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