Molecular characterization of enterotoxigenic escherichia coli isolates recovered from children with diarrhea during a 4-year period (2007 to 2010) in bolivia

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1219-1225

  Gonzales, Lucia ^a,b   Sanchez, Samanta ^b   Zambrana, Silvia ^b   Iñiguez, Volga ^b   Wiklund, Gudrun ^a   Svennerholm, Ann Mari ^a   Sjölinga, Asa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BOLIVIA; CHILD; CLYA GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EAST 1 GENE; EATA GENE; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; LEOA GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIA GENE; TIBC GENE;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; BOLIVIA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; SEASONS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ROTAVIRUS;

EID: 84875861530     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02971-12     Document Type: Article

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