Characterization of the most prevalent colonization factor antigens present in Chilean clinical enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli strains using a new multiplex polymerase chain reaction

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 217-223

  Vidal, Roberto M ^a   Valenzuela, Patricio ^a   Baker, Kelly ^c   Lagos, Rosanna ^b   Esparza, Mario ^a   Livio, Sofie ^c   Farfán, Mauricio ^a   Nataro, James P ^c   Levine, Myron M ^c   Prado, Valeria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b Centro para Vacunas en Desarrollo Chile   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonization factor antigen (CFAs); Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC); Molecular epidemiology of ETEC; Molecular identification of ETEC; Multiplex PCR; rns regulator

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHILE; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 72049090113     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2009.07.005     Document Type: Article

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