Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli excretion by child and her cat [7]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 348-349

  Busch, Ulrich ^a   Hörmansdorfer, Stefan ^a   Schranner, Stephan ^b   Huber, Ingrid ^a   Bogner, Karl Heinz ^a   Sing, Andreas ^a  

^a BAVARIAN HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Germany)

^b Veterinary Inspection Office   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBIOTIC AGENT;

BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CAT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEMORRHAGIC COLITIS; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PREVALENCE; REINFECTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEROTYPE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CLASSIFICATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VOMITING; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CATS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; VOMITING; ZOONOSES;

EID: 33846677072     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1302.061106     Document Type: Letter

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