Prevalence and distribution of different diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli virulotypes in major water bodies in Bangladesh

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 141, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2516-2525

  Akter, S ^a,b   Islam, M ^a   Afreen, K S ^a   Azmuda, N ^a,b   Khan, S I ^a   Birkeland, N K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bacterial contamination; Escherichia coli virulotypes; water hygiene

Indexed keywords

RAIN; STREPTOMYCIN; WATER;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BANGLADESH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEAGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; ENTEROAGGREGATIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROINVASIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEALTH SURVEY; IPAH GENE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SALINITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEROTYPE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SUMMER; VIRULOTYPE; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; WINTER;

EID: 84893054907     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268813000320     Document Type: Article

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