Extended virulence genotype of pathogenic Escherichia coli isolates carrying the afa-8 operon: Evidence of similarities between isolates from humans and animals with extraintestinal infections

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 218-226

  Girardeau, Jean Pierre ^a   Lalioui, Lila ^b   Mohamed Ou Said, A ^a   De Champs, Christophe ^c   Le Bouguénec, Chantal ^b  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; CEFALOTIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFPIROME; CEFTAZIDIME; COTRIMOXAZOLE; EPITOPE; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NETILMICIN; O ANTIGEN; PEFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TICARCILLIN; TOBRAMYCIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CATTLE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELONEPHRITIS; SEPSIS; YERSINIA;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOOD BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CATTLE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MUTS DNA MISMATCH-BINDING PROTEIN; O ANTIGENS; OPERON; PLASMIDS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPING; SIGMA FACTOR; SWINE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; YERSINIA;

EID: 12244274639     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.1.218-226.2003     Document Type: Article

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