Notes from the Field: Identification of Vibrio cholerae Serogroup O1, Serotype Inaba, Biotype El Tor Strain - Haiti, March 2012

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 61, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 309-

  Brunkard, Joan M ^a,b   Talkington, Deborah F ^a,b  

^a Ministry of Public Health and Population   (Haïti)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

CHOLERA; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS REACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; HAITI; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NOTE; PATHOGENICITY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPING; TANDEM REPEAT; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIROLOGY;

CHOLERA; CROSS REACTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, VIRAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HAITI; HUMANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1;

EID: 84861610899     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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