Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) of Escherichia coli O78 strains

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 222, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 199-203

  Adiri, Roni S ^a   Gophna, Uri ^a   Ron, Eliora Z ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Avian colisepticemia; Bacterial virulence; Multilocus sequence typing; Newborn meningitis; Sepsis; Serotype O78

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLONAL VARIATION; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0037721516     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00295-7     Document Type: Article

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