Clinical Characteristics and Molecular Subtyping of Vibrio Vulnificus Illnesses, Israel

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Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2008 Dec 3

PMID 19046510

Citations 23

Authors

Ronit Zaidenstein

Chantal Sadik

Larisa Lerner

Lea Valinsky

June Kopelowitz

Ruth Yishai

Vered Agmon

Michele Parsons

Cheryl Bopp

Miriam Weinberger

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