Cell-detaching Escherichia coli (CDEC) strains from children with diarrhea: Identification of a protein with toxigenic activity

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 191-197

  Abduch Fábrega, Vanessa Louise ^a   Piantino Ferreira, Antonio José ^b   Da Silva Patrício, Francy Reis ^a   Brinkley, Carl ^c   Affonso Scaletsky, Isabel Cristina ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell detaching Escherichia coli; Diarrhea; Toxin; Virulence property

Indexed keywords

AEROBACTIN; AMMONIUM SULFATE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYBRIDIZATION; ILEUM; INTESTINE; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SUPERNATANT; TOXICITY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; DIARRHEA; DNA PROBES; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; RABBITS; SEROTYPING;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0037126664     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)01071-6     Document Type: Article

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