Attaching and effacing Escherichia coli isolates from Danish children: Clinical significance and microbiological characteristics

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 863-872

  Jensen, C ^a   Ethelberg, S ^a   Olesen, B ^a,b   Schiellerup, P ^a   Olsen, K E P ^a   Scheutz, F ^a,c   Nielsen, E M ^a   Neimann, J ^d   Hogh B ^e   Gerner Smidt, P ^a   Molbak K ^a   Krogfelt, K A ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b HILLERØD HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c WHO REGIONAL OFFICE FOR EUROPE   (Denmark)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Attaching and effacing E. coli; Diarrhoea; EPEC; Escherichia coli; Intimin subtypes; Virulence factors

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; APRAMYCIN; BUNDLE FORMING PILUS PROTEIN; CATALASE PEROXIDASE; CEFTIOFUR; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; ENTEROHAEMOLYSIN; GENTAMICIN; INTIMIN; KANAMYCIN; MECILLINAM; NALIDIXIC ACID; NITROFURANTOIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD HEALTH; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; DIARRHEA; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ASTA; CAPRA HIRCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 34547849434     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2007.01773.x     Document Type: Article

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