Diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli and other causes of childhood diarrhoea: A case-control study in children living in a wastewater-use area in Hanoi, Vietnam

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1086-1096

  Hien, Bui Thi Thu ^a,b   Do, Thuy Trang ^a   Scheutz, Flemming ^c   Phung, Dae Cam ^a   Mølbak, Kåre ^d   Dalsgaard, Anders ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c WHO REGIONAL OFFICE FOR EUROPE   (Denmark)

^d STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; APRAMYCIN; CEFALOTIN; CEFTIOFUR; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; FLORFENICOL; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NEOMYCIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTEROINVASIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ROTAVIRUS; SHIGELLA; VACCINE PRODUCTION; VIET NAM; WASTE WATER;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBIASIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; FEMALE; GARDENING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; SEROTYPING; SHIGELLA; SUBURBAN POPULATION; VIETNAM; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34547924859     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.47093-0     Document Type: Article

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