Acute and chronic diarrhoea and abdominal colic associated with enteroaggregative Escherichia coli in young children living in western Europe

Lancet

Volumn 349, Issue 9066, 1997, Pages 1660-1662

  Huppertz, H I ^a,c   Rutkowski, S ^a   Aleksic, S ^b   Karch, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Inst Hyg Natl Ref Ctr E   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL ADHESION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLIC; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEP 2 CELL; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; INDUSTRIALIZATION; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SYMPTOM; TRAVEL; VIRULENCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 0030992013     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)12485-5     Document Type: Article

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