Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli: Traveler's diarrhea comes home

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 335-336

  Daniels, Nicholas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EPIDEMIC; FECES CULTURE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION;

DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; TRAVEL;

EID: 31044453444     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/499249     Document Type: Note

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