Detection of virulence-related genes by multiplex PCR in multidrug-resistant diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli isolates from Kenya and Japan

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 627-633

  Bii, C C ^a,b   Taguchi, H ^b   Ouko, T T ^a   Muita, L W ^a   Wamae, N ^a   Kamiya, S ^b  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTIAM; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ENTEROTOXIN; FOSFOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MINOCYCLINE; NORFLOXACIN; TETRACYCLINE; VEROTOXIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; JAPAN; KENYA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DIARRHEA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; KENYA; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRULENCE;

EID: 22544484239     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268805003870     Document Type: Article

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