Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli markers and phenotypes among fecal E. coli isolates collected from Nicaraguan infants

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3395-3396

  Reyes, Daniel ^a,b   Vilchez, Samuel ^a,c   Paniagua, Margarita ^a,b   Colque Navarro, Patricia ^b   Weintraub, Andrej ^c   Möllby, Roland ^b   Kühn, Inger ^b  

^a National Autonomous University of Nicaragua   (Nicaragua)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DIARRHEAGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTEROAGGREGATIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NICARAGUA; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; NICARAGUA; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77956818659     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00228-10     Document Type: Article

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