Clinical features of infections due to Escherichia coli producing heat- stable toxin during an outbreak in Wisconsin: A rarely suspected cause of diarrhea in the United States

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 898-902

  Roels, Thierry H ^b   Proctor, Mary E ^a   Robinson, Loyce C ^b   Hulbert, Kevin ^b   Bopp, Cheryl A ^b   Davis, Jeffrey P ^b  

^a WISCONSIN DIVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAFURAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031942232     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/513923     Document Type: Article

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