Incidence and etiology of infantile diarrhea and major routes of transmission in huascar, peru

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 129, Issue 4, 1989, Pages 785-799

  Black, Robert E ^a,b   Lopez De Roma, Guillero ^a   Brown, Kenneth H ^a,b   Bravo, Nora ^c   Grados Bazalar, Oscar ^c   Creed Kanashtro, Hilary ^c  

^a Institute de Inveatigacion Nutricional ^*  (Peru)

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

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD   (Peru)

Author keywords

Bacillary; Campylobacter Infections; Diarrhea; Dysentery; Escherlchla coil infections; Food contamination; Infant food; Infantile; Rotavirus Infections; Shlgella

Indexed keywords

CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FOOD; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFANT; INFANTILE DIARRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PERU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; ROTAVIRUS; SHIGELLA; WATER SUPPLY;

ANIMAL; CAMPYLOBACTER FETUS; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PERU; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; URBAN HEALTH; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0024599613     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a115193     Document Type: Article

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