The growth of Vibrio vulnificus and the habitat of infected patients in Kumamoto

BioScience Trends

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 134-139

  Inoue, Yuji ^a   Miyasaka, Jiro ^b   Ono, Tomomichi ^c   Ihn, Hironobu ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kumamoto Prefectural Institute of Health and Environmental Science   (Japan)

^c Kumamoto Health Science University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amount of rain; Geographical factors; Meteorological factors; Salinity of seawater; Tidelands; Vibrio vulnificus

Indexed keywords

RAIN; SEA WATER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOGENICITY; TEMPERATURE; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; VIBRIOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RAIN; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE; VIBRIO INFECTIONS; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 77952299527     PISSN: 18817815     EISSN: 18817823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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