Evidence of evolving extraintestinal enteroaggregative escherichia coli ST38 clone

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1935-1937

  Chattaway, Marie Anne ^a   Jenkins, Claire ^a   Ciesielczuk, Holly ^a   Day, Martin ^a   Donascimento, Vivienne ^a   Day, Michaela ^a   Rodríguez, Irene ^b,d   Essen Zandbergen, Alieda Van ^e   Schink, Anne Kathrin ^f   Wu, Guanghui ^g   Threlfall, John ^a   Woodward, Martin J ^a,g   Coldham, Nick ^g   Kadlec, Kristina ^f   Schwarz, Stefan ^f   Dierikx, Cindy ^e   Guerra, Beatriz ^d   Helmuth, Reiner ^d   Mevius, Dik ^e   Woodford, Neil ^a   Wain, John ^a,c   more..

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^d FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^g VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR; BETA LACTAMASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CLONE; ENTEROAGGREGATIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATOR GENE; SEROTYPING; CLASSIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SEROTYPE;

BETA-LACTAMASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SEROGROUP;

EID: 84908109335     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2011.131845     Document Type: Letter

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