Sex-dependent competitive dominance of phylogenetic group B2 Escherichia coli strains within human hosts

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 605-610

  Blyton, Michaela D J ^a   Cornall, Samantha J ^a   Kennedy, Karina ^b   Colligon, Peter ^b   Gordon, David M ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CANBERRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; BIODIVERSITY; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BIODIVERSITY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84913548670     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12168     Document Type: Article

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