Assessment of the bacterial diversity of human colostrum and screening of staphylococcal and enterococcal populations for potential virulence factors

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 159, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 595-601

  Jiménez, Esther ^a   Delgado, Susana ^a   Fernández, Leonides ^a   García, Natalia ^b   Albújar, Mar ^b   Gómez, Adolfo ^b   Rodríguez, Juan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI JOAN XXIII   (Spain)

Author keywords

Colostrum; Enterococcus; Gut colonization; Staphylococcus epidermidis

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COLOSTRUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYLA GENE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; VANA GENE; VANB GENE; VANE GENE; VANG GENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COLOSTRUM; CULTURE MEDIA; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS;

EID: 56949093047     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: 17697123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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