Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli with STh and STp genotypes is associated with diarrhea both in children in areas of endemicity and in travelers

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3872-3877

  Bölin, Ingrid ^a,f   Wiklund, Gudrun ^a   Qadri, Firdausi ^b   Torres, Olga ^c   Bourgeois, A Louis ^d   Savarino, Stephen ^e   Svennerholm, Ann Mari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b ICDDRB Laboratory Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

^c Laboratorios de Microbiologia INCAP   (Guatemala)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CHILD; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA PROBE; EGYPT; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOTYPE; GUATEMALA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA;

ADULT; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CHILD; DIARRHEA; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; TRAVEL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33750964547     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00790-06     Document Type: Article

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