Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Virulence Factors Are Found to Be Associated with Infantile Diarrhea in Brazil

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1058-1063

  Zamboni, Andresa ^a   Fabbricotti, Sandra H ^a   Fagundes Neto, Ulysses ^a   Scaletsky, Isabel C A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AAF I GENE; AAF II GENE; AAF III GENE; AAP GENE; AGGR GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRAZIL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA PROBE; EAST 1 GENE; ENTEROAGGREGATIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC MARKER; HLY GENE; INFANTILE DIARRHEA; IRP2 GENE; NONHUMAN; PET GENE; PIC GENE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SBET1 GENE; SHF GENE;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BRAZIL; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; INFANT; PLASMIDS; SEROTYPING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PAA;

EID: 1542513859     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.3.1058-1063.2004     Document Type: Article

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