Characterization of monkey enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and human typical and atypical EPEC serotype isolates from neotropical nonhuman primates

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1225-1234

  Carvalho, Vania M ^a   Gyles, Carlton L ^c   Ziebell, Kim ^d   Ribeiro, Marcela A ^a   Catão Dias, José L ^a   Sinhorini, Idércio L ^a   Otman, Jamile ^b   Keller, Rogéria ^b   Trabulsi, Luiz R ^b   Pestana de Castro, Antônio F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^d HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ENTERITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; HELA CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MARMOSET; MONKEY; MORTALITY; NEOTROPICS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEROTYPE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; MALE; SEROTYPING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CALLITHRIX; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MARMOSETS; NEGIBACTERIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0345269275     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.3.1225-1234.2003     Document Type: Article

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