Molecular analysis of typical and atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) isolated from children with diarrhoea

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue PART 2, 2013, Pages 191-195

  Nakhjavani, Farrokh Akbari ^a   Emaneini, Mohammad ^a   Hosseini, Hossein ^a   Iman Eini, Hossein ^b   Aligholi, Marzieh ^a   Jabalameli, Fereshteh ^a   Haghi Ashtiani, Mohammad Taghi ^a   Taherikalani, Morovat ^c   Mirsalehian, Akbar ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c ILAM UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFPODOXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; DIARRHEA; DISK DIFFUSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FECES; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; HUMANS; INFANT; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SHIGA TOXIN;

EID: 84872745016     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.046516-0     Document Type: Article

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