Escherichia coli and appendicitis: Phenotypic characteristics of E. coli isolates from inflamed and noninflamed appendices

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1038-1042

  Saxén, Harri ^b   Tarkka, Eveliina ^b   Hannikainen, Petri ^b   Nikku, Risto ^b   Rautio, Merja ^b   Siitonen, Anja ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; DNA; HEMOLYSIN; O ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FIMBRIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOTYPING; SEROTYPE;

EID: 0029973607     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/23.5.1038     Document Type: Article

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