High turnover rate of Escherichia coli strains in the intestinal flora of infants in Pakistan

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 587-598

  Adlerberth, I ^a   Jalil, F ^b   Carlsson, B ^a   Mellander, L ^a   Hanson, L A ^a   Larsson, P ^a   Khalil, K ^b   Wold, A E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b KING EDWARD MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOTYPOLOGY; CHILD HEALTH; CITROBACTER; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTESTINE FLORA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PAKISTAN; PERSONAL HYGIENE;

DIARRHEA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; RECTUM; SEROTYPING;

EID: 0032408960     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268898001484     Document Type: Article

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