Characterization of an Anonymous Molecular Marker Strongly Linked to Escherichia coli Strains Causing Neonatal Meningitis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1770-1772

  Clermont, Olivier ^a   Bonacorsi, Stéphane ^a   Bingen, Edouard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR MARKER;

ARPA GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MENINGITIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE HINDIII; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MENINGITIS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RRNA OPERON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 16544365246     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.4.1770-1772.2004     Document Type: Article

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