Morphometric study of the small bowel mucosa in infants with diarrhea due to enteropathogenic Escherichia coli strains

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 44, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 1051-1056

  Fagundes Neto, Ulysses ^a,b   Esper Kallas, Màrcia R ^a   Patrício, Francy R S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli; Infants diarrhea; Small bowel mucosa

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPT CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INFANTILE DIARRHEA; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE VILLUS; INTESTINE VILLUS ATROPHY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE MUCOSA; THICKNESS;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOPSY; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; EPITHELIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINE, SMALL; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE;

EID: 8544256309     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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