Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli O6:H16 food poisoning outbreak in prisons

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 410-411

  Kimura, Tomoko ^a   Akiba, Yoko ^a   Tsuruta, Miyoshi ^a   Akimoto, Toru ^a   Mitsui, Yoshio ^a   Ogasawara, Yoshihiro ^a   Ikegami, Hiroshi ^a  

^a Chiba City Institute of Health and Environment   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; FOSFOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD POISONING; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRISON; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SCREENING TEST; SEROTYPING;

BRASSICA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; FOOD POISONING; HUMANS; JAPAN; PRISONS;

EID: 33846013216     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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