Bacillary dysentery from World War 1 and NCTC1, the first bacterial isolate in the National Collection

The Lancet

Volumn 384, Issue 9955, 2014, Pages 1720-

  Mather, Alison E ^a   Baker, Kate S ^a   McGregor, Hannah ^b   Coupland, Paul ^a   Mather, Pamela L ^c   Deheer Graham, Ana ^b   Parkhill, Julian ^a   Bracegirdle, Philippa ^b   Russell, Julie E ^b   Thomson, Nicholas R ^a,d  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine ^*  (Canada)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOODY DIARRHEA; CHOLERA; HUMAN; HYGIENE; IMMUNE EVASION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER; WAR; ADULT; FRANCE; HISTORY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY;

ADULT; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; FRANCE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; WORLD WAR I;

EID: 84920774404     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61790-6     Document Type: Article

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