Diagnostic approach to acute diarrheal illness in a military population on training exercises in Thailand, a region of Campylobacter hyperendemicity

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1418-1425

  Tribble, David R ^a,f   Baqar, Shahida ^a   Pang, Lorrin W ^b   Mason, Carl ^b   Houng, Huo Shu H ^c   Pitarangsi, Chittima ^b   Lebron, Carlos ^d   Armstrong, Adam ^e   Sethabutr, Orntipa ^b   Sanders, John W ^e  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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

^c WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^d Naval Environmental Preventive Medicine Unit 6   (United States)

^e WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CAMPYLOBACTER SPECIFIC ANTIBODY; LACTOFERRIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENTERITIS; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCULT BLOOD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLDIER; THAILAND; TRAINING; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; CAMPYLOBACTER; DIARRHEA; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EVALUATION; FECES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI;

ADULT; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; DIARRHEA; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; OCCULT BLOOD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THAILAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 42449112529     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02168-07     Document Type: Article

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