The distribution of the bft alleles among enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis strains from stool specimens and extraintestinal sites

Anaerobe

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 71-74

  Ulger, Nurver ^a   Rajendram, Dunstan ^b   Yagci, Aysegul ^a   Gharbia, Saheer ^b   Shah, Haroun N ^b   Gulluoglu, Bahadir M ^a   Akin, Levhi M ^c   Demirkalem, Pakize ^a   Celenk, Tuncay ^c   Soyletir, Guner ^a  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bacteroides fragilis; bft alleles; Colon cancer; Enterotoxigenic; Fragilysin

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; FRAGILYSIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFECTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BACTEROIDES INFECTIONS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FECES; HUMANS; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS;

EID: 33644528428     PISSN: 10759964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2005.11.001     Document Type: Article

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