Outbreaks of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 infections among children with animal contact at a dairy farm in Yokohama City, Japan

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 161-162

  Muto, Tetsunori ^a   Matsumoto, Yuko ^a   Yamada, Mikiko ^a   Ishiguro, Yukiko ^a   Kitazume, Harue ^a   Sasaki, Kazuya ^a   Toba, Masanori ^a  

^a Yokohama City Institute of Health   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRYING; DIARRHEA; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EPIDEMIC; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMATOCHEZIA; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIQUID FECES; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ZOONOSIS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CATTLE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DAIRY PRODUCTS; DAIRYING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; MALE;

EID: 43449136188     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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