Two novel EHEC/EAEC hybrid strains isolated from human infections

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Prager, Rita ^a   Lang, Christina ^a   Aurass, Philipp ^a   Fruth, Angelika ^a   Tietze, Erhard ^a   Flieger, Antje ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOTIAM; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; MEZLOCILLIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; OXYTETRACYCLINE; STREPTOMYCIN; SULBACTAM; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; SHIGA TOXIN;

AATA GENE; AGGREGATIVE ADHERENCE FIMBRIA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROAGGREGATIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GERMANY; HYBRID; MARKER GENE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPING; STX2 GENE; STX2A GENE; STX2B GENE; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; CHLOROCEBUS AETHIOPS; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; VERO CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; SHIGA TOXIN; VERO CELLS;

EID: 84899670451     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095379     Document Type: Article

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