Prevalence and implications of multiple-strain infections

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 868-878

  Balmer, Oliver ^a,b,c,d   Tanner, Marcel ^a,c  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE FIBL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS VACCINE;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; AGGREGATIBACTER ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ASCARIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DENGUE VIRUS; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 6; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MULTIPLE STRAIN INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE INFECTION; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TUBERCULOSIS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

ALLELES; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFECTION; PREVALENCE;

EID: 82455171692     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(11)70241-9     Document Type: Review

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