Intestinal anaerobic bacteria and autistic mind: Is there some relations?

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Martirosian, Gayane ^a,b   Ekiel, Alicja ^a   Aptekorz, Malgorzata ^a   Kazek, Beata ^a   Marszal, Elzbieta ^a   Jankowska Steifer, Ewa ^b   Moskalewski, Stanislaw ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; AUTISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM BARATIL; CLOSTRIDIUM BUTYRICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM CLOSTRIDIFORME; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM HISTOLYTICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM PARAPUTRIFICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CLOSTRIDIUM SUBTERMINALE; CLOSTRIDIUM TETANI; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES MICROFLORA; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; LETTER; NONHUMAN;

EID: 65949089367     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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