Short report: High frequency of diarrheagenic escherichia coli in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patients with and without diarrhea in Lima, Peru

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1118-1120

  Garcia, Coralith ^a   Chincha, Omayra ^b   Leon, Mey ^b   Iglesias, David ^a   Barletta, Francesca ^a   Mercado, Erik ^a   Ochoa, Theresa ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Peru)

^b HOSPITAL NACIONAL CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIARRHEAGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PERU; CLASSIFICATION; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERU; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 77953752913     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.09-0460     Document Type: Article

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