Stx-producing shigella species from patients in haiti: An emerging pathogen with the potential for global spread

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Gray, Miranda D ^a   Leonard, Susan R ^b   Lacher, David W ^b   Lampel, Keith A ^b   Alam, Meer T ^c   Morris, J Glenn ^c   Ali, Afsar ^c   LaBreck, Patrick T ^a   Maurelli, Anthony T ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage; Haiti; Shiga toxin; Shigella

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; KANAMYCIN; SHIGA TOXIN;

ABNORMAL FECES COMPOSITION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; CYTOTOXICITY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HAITI; HUMAN; LYSOGENIZATION; MALE; MUCOID STOOL; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLA SONNEI; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; VERO CELL LINE;

EID: 85014220586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23288957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofv134     Document Type: Article

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