Non-toxigenic pattern II and III Bacteroides fragilis strains: Coexistence in the same host

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 522-524

  Antunes, Eduardo N F ^a   Ferreira, Eliane O ^a   Falcão, Laís S ^a   Paula, Geraldo R ^a   Avelar, Katia E S ^b   Barroso, David E ^b   Leite, José Paulo G ^b   Ferreira, Maria Candida S ^a   Domingues, Regina M C P ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bacteroides fragilis; BfPAI; Diarrhoea

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENTEROPATHY; FECES ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SAMPLING; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BACTEROIDES INFECTIONS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; ENTEROTOXINS; FECES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRULENCE;

BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS;

EID: 4143069466     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2004.04.008     Document Type: Article

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