Taxonomy, epidemiology, and clinical relevance of the genus Arcobacter

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 174-192

  Collado, Luis ^a,b   Figueras, Maria José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CADF PROTEIN; CARBENICILLIN; CEFOPERAZONE; CIAB PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CJ1349 PROTEIN; CLINDAMYCIN; HECA PROTEIN; HECB PROTEIN; IRGA PROTEIN; METRONIDAZOLE; MVIN PROTEIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; PLDA PROTEIN; PORIN A; RNA 16S; TLYA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARCOBACTER; ARCOBACTER CRYAEROPHILUS; ARCOBACTER NITROFIGILIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOODY DIARRHEA; COMORBIDITY; DIARRHEA; FECES ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GASTROENTERITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PET ANIMAL; PHENOTYPE; PROTEOMICS; RNA SEQUENCE; TAXONOMY; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ARCOBACTER; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; ZOONOSES;

ARCOBACTER;

EID: 78751547051     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: 10986618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.00034-10     Document Type: Article

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