Characterization of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli from diarrhoeal patients in Bangladesh using phenotyping and genetic profiling

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages 217-222

  Ansaruzzaman, M ^a   Bhuiyan, N A ^a   Begum, Y A ^a   Kuhn I ^b   Nair, G B ^a   Sack, D A ^a   Svennerholm, A M ^c   Qadri, F ^a  

^a ICDDR B Centre for Health and Population Research   (Bangladesh)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; COLONIZATION FACTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; O ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BANGLADESH; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SEROTYPING;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BANGLADESH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROTOXINS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; O ANTIGENS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SEROTYPING;

EID: 33847214604     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46473-0     Document Type: Article

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