Search for enterotoxin gene in bacteroides fragilis strains isolated from clinical specimens in Poland, Great Britain, the Netherlands and France

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 222-225

  Łuczak, Mirosław ^a   Obuch Woszczatyński, Piotr ^a   Pituch, Hanna ^a   Leszczyński, Piotr ^a   Martirosian, Gayane ^a   Patrick, Sheila ^b   Poxton, Ian ^c   Wintermans, Rob G F ^e   Dubreuil, Luc ^d   Meisel Mikołajczyk, Felicja ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d Franciscus Hospital   (Netherlands)

^e UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Bacteroides fragilis; Enterotoxin fragilysine; PCR

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; FRAGILYSIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; DNA DETERMINATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; FRANCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; POLAND; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; FRANCE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; NETHERLANDS; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0035072602     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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