Distribution of classical and nonclassical virulence genes in enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli isolates from Chilean children and tRNA gene screening for putative insertion sites for genomic islands

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3198-3203

  Del Canto, Felipe ^a,b   Valenzuela, Patricio ^b   Cantero, Lidia ^b   Bronstein, Jonathan ^b   Blanco, Jesús E ^c   Blanco, Jorge ^c   Prado, Valeria ^b   Levine, Myron ^d   Nataro, James ^d   Sommerfelt, Halvor ^e   Vidal, Roberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BACTERIAL DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; TRANSFER DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASNT GENE; ASTN GENE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD GROUP O; CHILD; CHILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; EATA GENE; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETPA GENE; FYUA GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOMIC ISLAND; HUMAN; IRP1 GENE; IRP2 GENE; LEOA GENE; LEUX GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; SELC GENE; THRW GENE; TIA GENE; TIBA GENE; TRANSFER RNA GENE; TRANSPOSON;

CHILD; CHILE; DIARRHEA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 80052203447     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02473-10     Document Type: Article

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