Seafood Safety & Illness Sources

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Morris, J.G. & R.E. Black. 1985. Cholera and other Vibrios in the United States. New England Journal of Medicine. 312(6):343-350.

Morris, J.G., R. Wilson, D.G. Hollis, R.E. Weaver, H.G. Miller, C.O. Tacket, F. W. Hickman, P.A. Blake. 1982. Illness caused by Vibrio damsela and Vibrio hollisae. Lancet. 1294-1296.

Blake, P.A. 1983. Vibrios on the half shell: what the walrus and the carpenter didn't know. Annals of Internal Medicine. 99(4):558-559.

Morris, J.G. & R.E. Black. 1985. Cholera and other Vibrios in the United States. New England Journal of Medicine. 312(6):343-350.

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