Importance of Providencia species as a major cause of travellers' diarrhoea

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1077-1082

  Yoh, Myonsun ^a   Matsuyama, Junko ^a   Ohnishi, Motoki ^b   Takagi, Kazuhiro ^b   Miyagi, Hirozane ^b   Mori, Kazuhiro ^b   Park, Kwon Sam ^a   Ono, Takahiro ^a   Honda, Takeshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kansai Airport Quarantine Station   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL STRAIN CACO 2; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVIDENCIA; PROVIDENCIA ALCALIFACIENS; PROVIDENCIA RETTGERI; PROVIDENCIA STUARTII; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RISK FACTOR; TRAVEL; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; VOMITING;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CACO-2 CELLS; CULTURE MEDIA; DIARRHEA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FECES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROVIDENCIA; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; TRAVEL; VOMITING;

EID: 27644461019     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.45846-0     Document Type: Article

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