Human Campylobacter-associated enteritis on the Caribbean island of Barbados

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 623-627

  Workman, Suzanne N ^a   Sobers, Stephanie J ^b   Mathison, George E ^a   Lavoie, Marc C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b Public Health Laboratory   (Barbados)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BARBADOS; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CHILD; DIARRHEA; ENTERITIS; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; SALMONELLA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHIGELLA; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; FECES; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SEASON;

CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; BARBADOS; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENTERITIS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS;

EID: 33646371468     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2006.74.623     Document Type: Article

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