Epidemic shiga bacillus dysentery in central America. I. Etiologic investigations in Guatemala, 1969

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 1970, Pages 170-180

  Mata, Leonardo J ^a,b   Gangarosa, Eugene J ^a,b   Cáceres, Armando ^a,b   Perera, David R ^a,b   Mejicanos, María Laura ^a,b  

^a Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama ^*  (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; CHILD; CLOSTRIDIUM; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GIARDIA; GUATEMALA; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTIBODIES; BACTEROIDES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLOSTRIDIUM; DIARRHEA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; GIARDIA; GUATEMALA; HEMAGGLUTINATION TESTS; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE;

EID: 0014849872     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/122.3.170     Document Type: Article

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