The impact of infant feeding patterns on infection and diarrheal disease due to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli El impacto de las modalidades de alimentación infantil en la infección y en las enfermedades diarreicas por Escherichia coli enterotoxigénica

OBJECTIVE. Determine the impact of dietary risk factors on patterns of infection by heat labile toxin-producing Escherichia coli (LT-ETEC). MATERIALS AND METHODS. Ninety-eight infants were followed from birth for one year in Guadalajara, Mexico, beginning in august of 1986. Stool and breast milk sam...

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Main Authors: Kurt Long, Edgar Vasquez-Garibay, John Mathewson, Javier de la Cabada, Herbert DuPont
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública 1999-07-01
Series:Salud Pública de México
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-36341999000400003