Case-Control Study on the Role of Enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis as a Cause of Diarrhea among Children in Kolkata, India

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Ramamurthy, Dharanidharan ^a   Pazhani, Gururaja P ^a   Sarkar, Anirban ^a   Nandy, Ranjan K ^a   Rajendran, Krishnan ^a   Sur, Dipika ^a   Manna, Bamkesh ^a   Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CEFOXITIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; IMIPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; MOXIFLOXACIN; NORFLOXACIN; SULTAMICILLIN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BFT 1 GENE; BFT 3 GENE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CHILD; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RISK FACTOR; URBAN AREA;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; ENTEROTOXINS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PHENOTYPE;

BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS;

EID: 84875941710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060622     Document Type: Article

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