Shifting prevalence of major diarrheal pathogens in patients seeking hospital care during floods in 1998, 2004, and 2007 in Dhaka, Bangladesh

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 708-714

  Harris, Aaron M ^b   Chowdhury, Fahima ^c   Begum, Yasmin Ara ^a   Khan, Ashraful Islam ^c   Faruque, Abu S G ^c   Svennerholm, Ann Mari ^d   Harris, Jason B ^e   Ryan, Edward T ^e   Cravioto, Alejandro ^f   Calderwood, Stephen B ^e   Qadri, Firdausi ^a  

^a ICDDRB Laboratory Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ICDDRB Clinical Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOODING; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; ROTAVIRUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; ROTAVIRUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 55849105621     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2008.79.708     Document Type: Article

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