Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 251-261

  Nataro, James P ^a   Steiner, Theodore ^b   Guerrant, Richard L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLITIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNE ADHERENCE; INTESTINE MUCOSA; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; REVIEW; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031808448     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0402.980212     Document Type: Review

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