Detection of enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis and its toxin in stool samples from adults and children in Italy

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 12-16

  Pantosti, Annalisa ^a   Menozzi, Maria Grazia ^b   Frate, Antonella ^b   Sanfilippo, Laura ^b   D'Ambrosio, Fabio ^b   Malpeli, Monica ^b  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN; HYPERIMMUNE GLOBULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DIARRHEA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANT; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031021260     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/24.1.12     Document Type: Article

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