Vibrio cholerae in a historically cholera-free country

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 381-389

  Haley, Bradd J ^a   Chen, Arlene ^a   Grim, Christopher J ^a,g   Clark, Philip ^a   Diaz, Celia Municio ^b   Taviani, Elisa ^a   Hasan, Nur A ^a,c   Sancomb, Elizabeth ^a   Elnemr, Wessam Mahmoud ^a   Islam, Muhammad A ^d   Huq, Anwar ^a   Colwell, Rita R ^a,c,e,f   Benediktsdóttir, Eva ^b  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c CosmosID TM ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84863995925     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2012.00332.x     Document Type: Article

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