Prevalence of shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in a diarrheagenic Tunisian population, and the report of isolating STEC O157:H7 in Tunis

Current Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 483-490

  Al Gallas, Nazek ^a   Bahri, Olfa ^a   Aissa, Ridha Ben ^a  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFALOTIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; OFLOXACIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TICARCILLIN;

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DIARRHEA; DIARRHEAGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEROTYPING; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; STX GENE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TUNISIA;

ADULT; CHILD; DIARRHEA; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREVALENCE; SHIGA TOXINS; TUNISIA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33751544947     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-006-0184-5     Document Type: Article

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