High prevalence of spirochetosis in cholera patients, Bangladesh

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 571-573

  Nelson, Eric J ^a   Tanudra, Angela ^b,c   Chowdhury, Ashrafuzzaman ^d   Kane, Anne V ^c   Qadri, Firdausi ^e   Calderwood, Stephen B ^f,g   Coburn, Jenifer ^b,d   Camilli, Andrew ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d JAHANGIRNAGAR UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^e INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BANGLADESH; BRACHYSPIRA; CHOLERA; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DNA DETERMINATION; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MICROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PREVALENCE; SPIROCHETE INFECTION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BANGLADESH; BASE SEQUENCE; BRACHYSPIRA; CHOLERA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FECES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; NADH, NADPH OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; SPIROCHAETALES INFECTIONS;

EID: 65349094714     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1504.081214     Document Type: Article

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