Characteristics of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli isolated from healthy carriers and from patients with diarrhoea

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue PART 12, 2013, Pages 1828-1834

  Nüesch Inderbinen, Magdalena T ^a   Hofer, Eveline ^a   Hächler, Herbert ^a   Beutin, Lothar ^b   Stephan, Roger ^a  

^a Vetsuisse   (Switzerland)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; AMOXICILLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIARRHEAGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROAGGREGATIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPING;

ADULT; CELL ADHESION; CELL LINE; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FECES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; SEROTYPING; VIRULENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887975135     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.065177-0     Document Type: Article

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