Trends in the prevalence of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli among hospitalized diarrheal patients in Kolkata, India.

BACKGROUND: To analyse the trends in the prevalence of different pathogroups of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) among hospitalized acute diarrheal patients. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: From the active surveillance of diarrheal disease at the Infectious Diseases Hospital, Kolkata, 3826 stool...

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Main Authors: Sanjucta Dutta, Sucharita Guin, Santanu Ghosh, Gururaja P Pazhani, Krishnan Rajendran, Mihir K Bhattacharya, Yoshifumi Takeda, G Balakrish Nair, Thandavarayan Ramamurthy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3573042?pdf=render