Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli associated with an outbreak of diarrhoea in a neonatal nursery ward

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 11-16

  Cobeljic M ^a   Miljkovic Selimovic B ^b   Paunovic Todosijevic D ^b   Velickovic Z ^b   Lepsanovic Z ^a   Zec, N ^a   Savic D ^c   Ilic R ^c   Konstantinovic S ^c   Jovanovic B ^c   Kostic V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEFENCE   (Serbia)

^b Public Health Institute

^c University Clinic Centre   (Yugoslavia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE DURATION; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEVER; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANTILE DIARRHEA; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; NURSERY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 9444268138     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268800001072     Document Type: Article

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