Epidemiology and diagnosis of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli infections

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 229-243

  Karch, Helge ^a   Bielaszewska, Martina ^b   Bitzan, Martin ^c   Schmidt, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHIGA TOXIN;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CATTLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROTYPE; TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SHIGA TOXINS;

EID: 0033029328     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(99)00031-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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