Distribution of genes encoding toxins and antibiotic resistance patterns in diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli isolates in Tehran

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 287-293

  Bouzari, Saeid ^a   Jafari, A ^a   Zarepoor, M ^a  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CEFALOTIN; CEFTIZOXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ENTEROTOXIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIARRHEAGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; DNA PROBE; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; IRAN; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; TOXICITY TESTING;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; DIARRHEA; DNA PROBES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROTOXINS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IRAN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEROTYPING; SHIGA TOXINS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 34447288489     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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