Microbiology With Diseases By Taxonomy (6th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134832302
Author: Robert W. Bauman Ph.D.
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 21, Problem 6SA
Beginning with the ingestion of water contaminated with V. cholerae O1 EI Tor, describe the course of the disease it causes.
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