Atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli genomic background allows the acquisition of non-EPEC virulence factors

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 299, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 22-30

  Bando, Silvia Y ^a,b   Andrade, Fernanda B ^a   Guth, Beatriz E C ^c   Elias, Waldir P ^a   Moreira Filho, Carlos A ^b   Pestana De Castro, Antônio F ^b  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli; Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli; Multilocus sequence typing; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEAGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 69949115430     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01735.x     Document Type: Article

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