Genotypic and phenotypic analysis of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli strains isolated from Brazilian children living in low socioeconomic level communities

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lozer, Diego M ^a   Souza, Tamara B ^b   Monfardini, Mariane V ^a   Vicentini, Fernando ^a   Kitagawa, Sônia S ^a   Scaletsky, Isabel C A ^b   Spano, Liliana C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRAZIL; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIARRHEAGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENTEROINVASIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SOCIOECONOMICS;

BRAZIL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POVERTY;

EID: 84883539922     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-418     Document Type: Article

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