A sensitive multiplex, real-time PCR assay for prospective detection of shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli from stool samples reveals similar incidences but variable severities of Non-O157 and O157 infections in Northern California

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3000-3005

  Lefterova, Martina I ^a   Slater, Kathleen A ^b   Budvytiene, Indre ^a   Dadone, Patricia A ^b   Banaei, Niaz ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Santa Clara County Public Health Department   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; VEROTOXIN 1; VEROTOXIN 2;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA EXTRACTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FECES ANALYSIS; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MASS SCREENING; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPING; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROTYPING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84882750486     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00991-13     Document Type: Article

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