Combined multilocus sequence typing and O serogrouping distinguishes Escherichia coli subtypes associated with infant urosepsis and/or meningitis

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 196, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 297-303

  Bidet, Philippe ^a,b   Mahjoub Messai, Farah ^a,b   Blanco, Jorge ^d   Blanco, Jesús ^d   Dehem, Marie ^c   Aujard, Yannick ^a,b   Bingen, Edouard ^a,b   Bonacorsi, Stéphane ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

^c Genoscreen   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOTYPE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; PHYLOGENY; RIBOTYPING; SEPSIS; SEROTYPING; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 34447256783     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/518897     Document Type: Article

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