Practice Guidelines for the Management of Infectious Diarrhea

Clinical Infectious Diseases - Tập 32 Số 3 - Trang 331-351 - 2001
Richard L. Guerrant1, Thomas Van Gilder2, Theodore S. Steiner3, Nathan M. Thielman4, Laurence Slutsker2, Robert V. Tauxe2, Thomas Hennessy2, Patricia M. Griffin2, Herbert L. DuPont5, R. Bradley Sack6, Phillip I. Tarr7, Marguerite A. Neill8, Irving Nachamkin9, L. Barth Reller4, Michael T. Osterholm10, Michael L. Bennish11, Larry K. Pickering2
1University of Virginia, Charlottesville
2Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta
3University of British Columbia, Vancouver
4Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
5St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston
6 The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Baltimore
7Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Seattle
8 Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, Pawtucket
9University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
10 Infections Control Advisory Net, Eden Prairie, Minnesota
11New England Medical Center, Boston

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