Prevalence of toxin types and colonization factors in enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli isolated during a 2-year period from diarrheal patients in Bangladesh

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 27-31

  Qadri, Firdausi ^a,d   Das, Swadesh Kumar ^a   Faruque, A S G ^b   Fuchs, George J ^a   Albert, M John ^a   Sack, R Bradley ^b   Svennerholm, Ann Mari ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d ICDDRB Laboratory Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BANGLADESH; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BANGLADESH; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIARRHEA; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FECES; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS;

EID: 0033987915     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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