Vaginal Escherichia coli share common virulence factor profiles, serotypes and phylogeny with other extraintestinal E. coli

Microbiology

Volumn 148, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2745-2752

  Obata Yasuoka, Mana ^a   Ba Thein, William ^a   Tsukamoto, Teizo ^a   Yoshikawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Hayashi, Hideo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Extraintestinal virulence factors; O:K:H antigens; Phylogenetic grouping; Vagina

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; VIRULENCE FACTOR; ADHESIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CYTOTOXIN; H ANTIGEN; K ANTIGENS; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; O ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; VAGINA FLORA; CLASSIFICATION; FECES; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; SEROTYPING; VAGINA; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CYTOTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; O ANTIGENS; PHYLOGENY; SEROTYPING; VAGINA; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 0036736565     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-148-9-2745     Document Type: Article

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