Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli and Shigella strains isolated from children in a hospital case-control study in Hanoi, Vietnam

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 996-1004

  Hien, Bui Thi Thu ^a,c,e   Scheutz, Flemming ^b   Phung, Dac Cam ^a   Serichantalergs, Oralak ^d   Tran, Thu Huong ^a   Tran, Minh Thu ^a   Dalsgaard, Anders ^c  

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

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d ARMED FORCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Thailand)

^e CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CAMPYLOBACTER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DNA PROBE; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SALMONELLA; SEROTYPE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHIGELLA; VIET NAM;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPING; SHIGELLA; VIETNAM; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHIGELLA;

EID: 40749121725     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01219-07     Document Type: Article

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