Plesiomonas shigelloides infection, Ercuador, 2004-2008

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 322-324

  Escobar, Juan C ^b   Bhavnani, Darlene ^a   Trueba, Gabriel ^b   Ponce, Karina ^b   Cevallos, William ^b   Eisenberg, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SAN FRANCISCO DE QUITO   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECUADOR; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; ENTEROINVASIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PLESIOMONAS SHIGELLOIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING TEST;

ADOLESCENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COINFECTION; DIARRHEA; ECUADOR; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; PLESIOMONAS; PREVALENCE; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 84856321669     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1802.110562     Document Type: Article

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