Pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Maryland, USA, 2012

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 718-720

  Haendiges, Julie ^a   Rock, Marvin ^a   Myers, Robert A ^a   Brown, Eric W ^b   Evans, Peter ^b   Gonzalez Escalona, Narjol ^b  

^a Department of Health and Mental Hygiene ^*  (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOINFORMATICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD POISONING; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LETTER; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; OYSTER; PANDEMIC; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEA FOOD; UNITED STATES; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS INFECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; VIBRIO INFECTIONS;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; MARYLAND; PANDEMICS; VIBRIO INFECTIONS; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS;

EID: 84896451594     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2004.130818     Document Type: Letter

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