The greatest steps towards the discovery of Vibrio cholerae

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 191-195

  Lippi, D ^a   Gotuzzo, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

Author keywords

Filippo Pacini; History of cholera; John Snow; Robert Koch; Vibrion

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AIRBORNE INFECTION; ANTHRAX; CHOLERA; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GERM THEORY OF DISEASE; HUMAN; INTESTINE MUCOSA; NONHUMAN; PANDEMIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE; TUBERCULOSIS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VOMITING; HISTORY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

CHOLERA; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84893745192     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12390     Document Type: Review

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