Contamination of weaning foods and transmission of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli diarrhoea in children in rural Bangladesh

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 1982, Pages 259-264

  Black, Robert E ^a,a,b   Brown, Kenneth H ^b,c,d   Becker, Stan ^b   Alim, A R M Abdul ^b   Merson, Michael H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; ASIA; BABY FOOD; BACTERIAL AND FUNGAL DISEASES; BANGLADESH; BIOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASES; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GASTROINTESTINAL EFFECTS; HEALTH; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION--COMPLICATIONS; INFANTILE DIARRHEA; INFECTIONS--ANALYSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; NUTRITION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTHERN ASIA; SUPPLEMENTARY FEEDING--COMPLICATIONS; TEMPERATURE; WEANING;

ASIA; BACTERIAL AND FUNGAL DISEASES; BANGLADESH; BIOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIARRHEA; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL EFFECTS; HEALTH; INFANT NUTRITION--COMPLICATIONS; INFECTIONS--ANALYSIS; NUTRITION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTHERN ASIA; SUPPLEMENTARY FEEDING--COMPLICATIONS;

BANGLADESH; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TEMPERATURE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WEANING;

EID: 0020010676     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0035-9203(82)90292-9     Document Type: Article

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