Cholera outbreaks in the El tor biotype era and the impact of the new El tor variants

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 379, Issue , 2014, Pages 17-47

  Mukhopadhyay, Asish K ^a   Takeda, Yoshifumi ^b   Balakrish Nair, G ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c TRANSLATIONAL HEALTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BIOTYPE; CHOLERA; CONFERENCE PAPER; EPIDEMIC; EVOLUTION; FATALITY; HAITI; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PANDEMIC; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRAVEL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84959215098     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: 21969965     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/82-2014-363     Document Type: Conference Paper

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