Poor clinical outcome for meningitis caused by Haemophilus influenzae serotype A strains containing the IS1016-bexA deletion

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 202, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1577-1584

  Lima, Josilene B T ^a   Ribeiro, Guilherme S ^a,b   Cordeiro, Soraia M ^a   Gouveia, Edilane L ^a   Salgado, Kátia ^d   Spratt, Brian G ^e   Godoy, Daniel ^e   Reis, Mitermayer G ^a   Ko, Albert I ^a,f   Reis, Joice Neves ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b Institute of Collective Health   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^d Hospital Couto Maia   (Brazil)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BEXA GENE; BRAZIL; CHILD; CLONE; DNA SEQUENCE; FATALITY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE A; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPE;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAZIL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HAEMOPHILUS; HOSPITALS, MUNICIPAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MENINGITIS, HAEMOPHILUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRULENCE;

EID: 78349285179     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/656778     Document Type: Article

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