Prevalence of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli among children with gastroenteritis in the northwest of Iran
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© 2015 The Authors; Tabriz University of Medical Sciences This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Prevalence of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli among children with gastroenteritis in the northwest of Iran
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