Prospective study of pathogens in asymptomatic travellers and those with diarrhoea: aetiological agents revisited

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 535-541

  Laaveri T ^a,b   Antikainen, J ^b   Pakkanen, S H ^a   Kirveskari, J ^b   Kantele, A ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c Aava Medical Centre   (Finland)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aetiology; Campylobacter; diarrhoea; enteroaggregative Escherichia coli; enteropathogenic E. coli; enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli; quantitative RT PCR; travel

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTEROAGGREGATIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROINVASIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHIGELLA; TRAVEL; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; COINFECTION; DIARRHEA; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COINFECTION; DIARRHEA; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84964652586     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2016.02.011     Document Type: Article

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