Emergence of a novel Shigella flexneri serotype 4s strain that evolved from a serotype X variant in China

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1148-1150

  Qiu, Shaofu ^a   Wang, Zhongqiang ^a   Chen, Chen ^a   Liu, Nan ^a   Jia, Leili ^a   Liu, Wenjing ^a   Wang, Ligui ^a   Hao, Rongzhang ^a   Zhang, Ling ^a   Wang, Yong ^a   Song, Hongbin ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; SULTAMICILLIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; IAL GENE; IPAH GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEN GENE; SEROTYPE; SET1A GENE; SET1B GENE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; VIRF GENE;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TYPING; SEROTYPING; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 79952329001     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01946-10     Document Type: Article

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