Prevalence of virulence genes and clonality in Escherichia coli strains that cause bacteremia in cancer patients

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 3983-3989

  Hilali, Farida ^a,b   Ruimy, Raymond ^a   Saulnier, Patrick ^b   Barnabé, Christian ^c   Lebouguénec, Chantal ^d   Tibayrenc, Michel ^c   Andremont, Antoine ^a  

^a BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CANCER PATIENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCATION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA PRIMERS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; NEOPLASMS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0033945723     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.7.3983-3989.2000     Document Type: Article

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