Defining causality in emerging agents of acute bacterial diarrheas: A step beyond the Kochs postulates

Future Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1787-1797

  Desnues, Benoit ^a   Al Moussawi, Khatoun ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Animal models; Causality; Diarrhea; Emerging bacterial agents; Guidelines; Kochs postulates

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A; PROBIOTIC AGENT; RIBOSOME DNA;

ACHLORHYDRIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; ACUTE DIARRHEA; BACILLACEAE; BACTEROIDETES; DIARRHEA; FEVER; FIRMICUTES; FUSOBACTERIA; HAFNIA ALVEI; HEADACHE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HEMORRHAGIC COLITIS; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; INTESTINE FLORA; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LACHNOSPIRACEAE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; METAGENOMICS; MIXED INFECTION; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCACEAE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; REVIEW; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

ACUTE DISEASE; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMANS; INTESTINES; METAGENOME;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 78650433781     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.10.141     Document Type: Review

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