Outbreak of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O121 among school children exposed to cattle in a ranch for public education on dairy farming

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 190-192

  Akiba, Yoko ^a   Kimura, Tomoko ^a   Takagi, Miyoshi ^a   Akimoto, Toru ^a   Mitsui, Yoshio ^a   Ogasawara, Yoshihiro ^a   Omichi, Masayoshi ^a  

^a Chiba City Institute of Health and Environment   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FOSFOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DAIRY CATTLE; DAIRYING; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CATTLE; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHILD; DAIRYING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 23844480791     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: 13446304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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