Environmental monitoring of Vibrio cholerae using chironomids in India

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 96-103

  Raz, Nili ^a   Danin Poleg, Yael ^a   Broza, Yoav Y ^a   Arakawa, Eiji ^b   Ramakrishna, Balakrishnan S ^c   Broza, Meir ^d   Kashi, Yechezkel ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHIRONOMIDAE; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 77957263907     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2009.00109.x     Document Type: Article

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