Plasmid encoded enterotoxin (Pet) gene in enteroaggregative Escherichia coli isolated from sporadic diarrhea cases

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 248-249

  Yamazaki, Mitsugu ^a   Inuzuka, Kazuhisa ^b   Matsui, Hironori ^a   Sakae, Kenji ^a   Suzuki, Yasumoto ^a   Miyazaki, Yutaka ^a   Ito, Kenitiro ^c  

^a AICHI PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b ANJO KOSEI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERNAL MEDICINE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEXICO; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PEDIATRICS; PERU; PHENOTYPE; PHILIPPINES; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPING; THAILAND; THERMOSTABILITY; WARD;

ADULT; BACTERIAL ADHESION; CHILD; DIARRHEA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; O ANTIGENS; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0034459766     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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