Presence of enterotoxin genes in Klebsiella strains isolated from children with diarrhea

Advances in Clinical and Experimental Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 283-290

  Janczura, Adriana ^a   Ma̧czyńska, Beata ^a,b   Kasprzykowska, Urszula ^a   Smutnicka, Danuta ^a   Przondo Mordarska, Anna ^a   Junka, Adam ^a   Mokracka Latajka, Grazyna ^a  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b NONE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Enterotoxins; Klebsiella; Lth; PCR; Sta; Stb

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN; PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; DIARRHEA; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

KLEBSIELLA;

EID: 68249096721     PISSN: 1230025X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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