Controlled study on enteropathogens in travellers returning from the tropics with and without diarrhoea

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1194-1200

  Paschke, C ^a   Apelt, N ^a   Fleischmann, E ^a   Perona, P ^a   Walentiny, C ^a   Loscher T ^a   Herbinger, K H ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diarrhoea; Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli; Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli; Norovirus; Traveller

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIA; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CYCLOSPORA CAYETANENSIS; DIARRHEA; ENTEROAGGREGATIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MIXED INFECTION; NOROVIRUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SALMONELLA; SCHOOL CHILD; SHIGELLA; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; TRAVEL; TROPICS;

BLASTOCYSTIS; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CYCLOSPORA CAYETANENSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; NOROVIRUS; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA;

EID: 79960663869     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03414.x     Document Type: Article

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