Identification of diarrheagenic escherichia coli isolated from infants and children in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Moyo, Sabrina J ^a,b   Maselle, Samwel Y ^a   Matee, Mecky I ^a   Langeland, Nina ^b,c   Mylvaganam, Haima ^b  

^a MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN BFPA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AGGR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEAGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROAGGREGATIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROINVASIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TANZANIA; ACUTE DISEASE; BACTERIAL GENE; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DYSENTERY; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; INFANTILE DIARRHEA; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; DYSENTERY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TANZANIA; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 34548759582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-7-92     Document Type: Article

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