Diarrhegenic Escherichia coli Replaces Shigella spp. as the Predominant Bacteria Causing Childhood Diarrhea in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

P. Ramya Raghavan Regional Medical Research Centre (ICMR), Port Blair, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, India;

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Sugunan Attayoor Purushothaman Regional Medical Research Centre (ICMR), Port Blair, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, India;

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Thamizhmani Ramanathan Regional Medical Research Centre (ICMR), Port Blair, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, India;

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Subarna Roy ICMR-National Institute of Traditional Medicine (Formerly Regional Medical Research Centre), Belagavi, Karnataka, India

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Address correspondence to Subarna Roy, ICMR-National Institiute of Traditional Medicine (Formerly Regional Medical Research Centre), Belagavi, Karnataka, India 744101. E-mail: roys@icmr.gov.in

Ethics Committee approval: This study was cleared by an institutional ethics committee.

Authors’ addresses: Ramya Raghavan P., Sugunan Attayoor Purushothaman, and Thamizhmani Ramanathan, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Regional Medical Research Centre, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, E-mails: raghavanramya85@gmail.com, apsugunan@gmail.com, and r.thamizh83@yahoo.in. Subarna Roy, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, ICMR-National Institute of Traditional Medicine (Formerly Regional Medical Research Centre), Belagavi, Karnataka, India, E-mail: roys@icmr.gov.in.

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