Combined infection of norwalk-like virus and verotoxin-producing bacteria associated with a gastroenteritis outbreak

Journal of Diarrhoeal Diseases Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 34-36

  Bettelheim, Karl A ^a   Scott Bowden, D ^a   Doultree, Jennifer C ^a   Catton, Michael G ^a   Chibo, Doris ^a   Ryan, Norbert J P ^a   Wright, Peter J ^a   Gunesekere, Ishara C ^a   Griffith, Julia M ^a   Lightfoot, Diane ^a   Hogg, Geoffrey G ^a   Bennett Wood, Vicki ^a   Marshall, John A ^a  

^a Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aeromonas; Bacterial toxins; Disease outbreaks; Escherichia coli; Gastroenteritis; Norwalk virus; Verotoxins

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; VEROTOXIN 1;

AEROMONAS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NORWALK GASTROENTERITIS VIRUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIROLOGY;

AEROMONAS; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NORWALK VIRUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN I;

EID: 0033085780     PISSN: 02538768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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