Low incidence of concurrent enteric infection associated with sporadic and outbreak-related human cryptosporidiosis in Northern Ireland

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 3107-3108

  Moore, John E ^a   Crothers, Lester ^a   Millar, B Cherie ^a   Crothers, Elizabeth ^a   Rooney, Paul J ^a   Xiao, Lihua ^a   Dooley, James S G ^a   Lowery, Colm J ^a  

^a BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAMPYLOBACTER; CHILD; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTESTINE INFECTION; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIXED INFECTION; NEWBORN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER CONTAMINATION; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTERITIS; FECES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NORTHERN IRELAND;

CAMPYLOBACTER; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 0036702383     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.40.8.3107-3108.2002     Document Type: Letter

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