Prevalence of enteropathogenic, enteroaggregative, and diffusely adherent Escherichia coli among isolates from children with diarrhea in New Caledonia

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 174, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1124-1126

  Germani, Yves ^b   Bégaud, Evelyne ^b   Duval, Philippe ^c   Le Bouguénec, Chantal ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR DE BANGUI   (Central African Republic)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0029859690     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/174.5.1124     Document Type: Article

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