Real-time PCR identification of agents causing diarrhea in Rwandan children less than 5 years of age

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1037-1042

  Kabayiza, Jean Claude ^a,b   Andersson, Maria E ^b   Nilsson, Staffan ^c   Bergström, Tomas ^b   Muhirwa, Gregoire ^a   Lindh, Magnus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA   (Rwanda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ct value; Diarrhea; Etiology; Feces; Gastroenteritis; Real time pcr; Rectal swab

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRIDAE; ADENOVIRUS INFECTION; ARTICLE; ASTROVIRUS; ASTROVIRUS INFECTION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CALICIVIRUS INFECTION; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIARRHEA; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FECES; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOROVIRUS; NOROVIRUS INFECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTION; RWANDAN; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLOSIS; SAPOVIRUS; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLOSIS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; YERSINIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION STUDY; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RWANDA; VIROLOGY; VIRUS DISEASES;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; DIARRHEA; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RWANDA; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 84926226372     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0000000000000448     Document Type: Article

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