Molecular typing and virulence markers of Yersinia enterocolitica strains from human, animal and food origins isolated between 1968 and 2000 in Brazil

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1539-1548

  Falcão, Juliana P ^a   Falcão, Deise P ^b   Pitondo Silva, André ^a   Malaspina, Ana Carolina ^b   Brocchi, Marcelo ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFALOTIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ESCULIN; GENOMIC DNA; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; SALICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AIL GENE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRAZIL; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INV GENE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; VIRF GENE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YSTA GENE;

AGGLUTINATION TESTS; AMIDOHYDROLASES; ANIMALS; BENZYL ALCOHOLS; BRAZIL; CONGO RED; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCULIN; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA INFECTIONS;

EID: 33750797226     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46733-0     Document Type: Article

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