Real-time PCR for quantitative analysis of human commensal Escherichia coli populations reveals a high frequency of subdominant phylogroups

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 5005-5012

  Smati, Mounira ^a,b,c   Clermont, Olivier ^a,d   Le Gal, Frédéric ^c   Schichmanoff, Olivier ^c   Jauréguy, Françoise ^a,b,c   Eddi, Alain ^d   Denamur, Erick ^a,d   Picard, Bertrand ^a,b,c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^c ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX PATTERN; DETECTION THRESHOLD; HEALTHY HUMANS; NUMBER OF SAMPLES; PHYLOGENETIC GROUPS; POPULATION STRUCTURES; REAL-TIME PCR METHOD; RESISTANT STRAINS;

CLONING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

CLONE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA ACQUISITION; FECES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REAL TIME; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; EVALUATION; FECES; FRANCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FECES; FRANCE; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84880991775     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01423-13     Document Type: Article

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