Research Article

Case-Control Pilot Study on Acute Diarrheal Disease in a Geographically Defined Pediatric Population in a Middle Income Country

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Microbial detection methods to identify bacterial, viral, and parasitic agents from stools samples of study subjects. PCR for diarrheagenic E. coli was to detect enterotoxigenic, enteropathogenic, Shiga-toxin producing, diffusely adherent, and enteroinvasive E. coli as well as emergent E. coli pathotypes.