Prevalence, seasonality and severity of disease caused by pathogenic Escherichia coli in children with diarrhoea in Bolivia

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue PART 11, 2013, Pages 1697-1706

  Gonzales, Lucia ^a,b   Joffre, Enrique ^a,b   Rivera, Rosario ^b   Sjöling, Åsa ^a   Svennerholm, Ann Mari ^a   Iñiguez, Volga ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BOLIVIA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIARRHEAGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTEROAGGREGATIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROINVASIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX RATIO; WINTER;

BOLIVIA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEASONS;

EID: 84885897214     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.060798-0     Document Type: Article

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