Spread of Pacific Northwest Vibrio parahaemolyticus strain

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 369, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 1573-1574

  Martinez Urtaza, Jaime ^a   Baker Austin, Craig ^b   Jones, Jessica L ^c   Newton, Anna E ^d   Gonzalez Aviles, Gladys D ^d   DePaola, Angelo ^c  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^b CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER; SURFACE WATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTAMINATED SHELLFISH; EPIDEMIC; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; SPAIN; UNITED STATES; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS INFECTION; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84885807292     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1305535     Document Type: Letter

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