Distribution of non-locus of enterocyte effacement pathogenic island-related genes in Escherichia coli carrying eae from patients with diarrhea and healthy individuals in Japan

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4107-4114

  Narimatsu, Hiroshi ^a,b   Ogata, Kikuyo ^a   Makino, Yoshihiro ^b   Ito, Kenitiro ^c  

^a Oita Prefectural Institute of Health and Environment   (Japan)

^b OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BFPA GENE; DIARRHEA; EFA1 GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESPC GENE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HETERODUPLEX ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE CELL; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NLEB GENE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; YJAA GENE;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL TOXINS; DIARRHEA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HUMANS; JAPAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 78049491292     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00677-10     Document Type: Article

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