Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli isolated from stools of sporadic cases of diarrheal illness in Osaka City, Japan between 1997 and 2000: Prevalence of enteroaggregative E. coli heat-stable enterotoxin 1 gene-prossessing E. coli

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 183-190

  Nishikawa, Yoshikazu ^a   Zhou, Zhijiang ^b   Hase, Atsushi ^a   Ogasawara, Jun ^a   Kitase, Teruyo ^a   Abe, Niichiro ^a   Nakamura, Hiromi ^a   Wada, Takayuki ^a   Ishii, Eiji ^a   Haruki, Kosuke ^a   Imaishi, Hidenori ^c   Fukumoto, Akira ^c   Hori, Akihiko ^c   Goto, Tetsuji ^c   Yamamori, Isao ^d   Suzuki, Kenji ^d   Saitoh, Shigeko ^d   Yoshida, Hideki ^e   Niimi, Hironari ^e   Ikeda, Eiji ^e   Sakaue, Yoshihiro ^e   Ono, Atsushi ^l   Yoshida, Tetsuro ^l   Ebina, Ryouji ^f   Kaji, Katsushi ^f   Unishi, Gen ^g   Ideno, Mayumi ^g   Tsuji, Miyoko ^g   Hayashi, Toshiaki ^g   Sudo, Hiroaki ^g   Tsubakio, Yuriko ^g   Iwamura, Chiyo ^g   Yoshimura, Akitomo ^g   Morikawa, Yoshiro ^h   Kitazato, Miyoshi ^h   Ichiba, Hiroyuki ⁱ   Kawamura, Tomoyuki ^j   Goto, Takeshi ^k   Suzuki, Michiko ^k   more..

^a OSAKA CITY INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b CHANGCHUN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c OSAKA POLICE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d Nagayoshi General Hospital   (Japan)

^e Osaka City Gen Med Treatm Center   (Japan)

^f Nakano General Hospital   (Japan)

^g Dept of Respiratory Medicine Saiseikai Noe Hospital   (Japan)

^h Osaka City Juso Hospital   (Japan)

ⁱ YODOGAWA CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^j Sumiyoshi Citizen's Hospital   (Japan)

^k Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^l NONE

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; FOSFOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; O ANTIGEN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SALMONELLA; SEROTYPING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; THERMOSTABILITY; TISSUE CULTURE; TOXICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0036953719     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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