Escherichia coli serotype O15:K52:H1 as a uropathogenic clone

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 201-209

  Prats, Guillem ^a   Navarro, Ferran ^a   Mirelis, Beatriz ^a   Dalmau, David ^b   Margall, Nuria ^a   Coll, Pere ^a   Stell, Adam ^c   Johnson, James R ^c  

^a HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL MÚTUA DE TERRASSA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBACTIN; AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; HEMOLYSIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NEOMYCIN; NITROFURANTOIN; PIPERACILLIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TICARCILLIN; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELONEPHRITIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROTYPING; SPAIN; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

BACTEREMIA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HUMANS; O ANTIGENS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SEROTYPING; SPAIN; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0033986663     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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