Incidence and clinical symptoms of Aeromonas-associated travellers' diarrhoea in Tokyo

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 121-126

  Yamada, S ^a   Matsushita, S ^a   Dejsirilert, S ^b   Kudoh, Y ^c  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b Division of Clinical Pathology   (Thailand)

^c KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; AEROMONAS; AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; AEROMONAS SOBRIA; ARTICLE; ASIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FEVER; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIXED INFECTION; NAUSEA; PLESIOMONAS SHIGELLOIDES; SALMONELLA; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; VOMITING;

AEROMONAS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIARRHEA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FECES; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOKYO; TRAVEL;

EID: 0030716756     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268897007942     Document Type: Article

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