Human infections with new subspecies of Campylobacter fetus

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1678-1680

  Patrick, Mary E ^a   Gilbert, Maarten J ^b,e   Blaser, Martin J ^c   Tauxe, Robert V ^a   Wagenaar, Jaap A ^b,d,e   Fitzgerald, Collette ^a  

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

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOSPORIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CONTROL; DRUG SENSITIVITY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FECES ANALYSIS; FEVER; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEW; LEUKEMIA; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PUBLIC HEALTH;

BACTERIA; C. FETUS SUBSP. FETUS; C. FETUS SUBSP. TESTUDINUM SUBSP. NOV.; C. FETUS SUBSP. VENEREALIS; CAMPYLOBACTER FETUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOODBORNE INFECTIONS; HUMAN INFECTIONS; REPTILES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; CAMPYLOBACTER FETUS; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; DIARRHEA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884243094     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1910.130883     Document Type: Article

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