Seasonal variation of HUS occurrence and VTEC infection in children with acute diarrhoea from Argentina

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1131-1135

  Rivero, M A ^a   Passucci, J A ^a   Rodriguez E M ^a   Parma, A E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BEEF; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EAE GENE; EATING HABIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; EXHA GENE; FOOD INTAKE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEROTYPE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SPRING; SUMMER; VT1 GENE; VT2 GENE; WINTER; CLASSIFICATION; DIARRHEA; FECES; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; SEASON; SEROTYPING;

ARGENTINA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; SEROTYPING; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84863824491     PISSN: 09349723     EISSN: 14354373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10096-011-1418-4     Document Type: Article

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