Colonization of healthy children by Moraxella catarrhalis is characterized by genotype heterogeneity, virulence gene diversity and co-colonization with Haemophilus influenzae

Microbiology

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 169-178

  Verhaegh, Suzanne J C ^a   Snippe, Martine L ^a   Levy, Foster ^b   Verbrugh, Henri A ^a   Jaddoe, Vincent W V ^a   Hofman, Albert ^a   Moll, Henriëtte A ^a   Van Belkum, Alex ^a   Hays, John P ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; USPA1 GENE; USPA2 GENE; VIRUS COLONIZATION;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MORAXELLA (BRANHAMELLA) CATARRHALIS; MORAXELLACEAE INFECTIONS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NETHERLANDS; NOSE; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS;

EID: 78650726714     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.042929-0     Document Type: Article

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