The speciation and genotyping of Cronobacter isolates from hospitalised patients

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1979-1988

  Alsonosi, A ^a   Hariri, S ^a   Kajsik M ^b   Orieskova M ^b   Hanulik V ^c   Roderova M ^c   Petrzelova J ^c   Kollarova H ^c   Drahovska H ^b   Forsythe, S ^a   Holy O ^c  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^c PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CRONOBACTER; CRONOBACTER MALONATICUS; CRONOBACTER SAKAZAKII; FECAL SWAB; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RECTAL SWAB; RPOB GENE; SCHOOL CHILD; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPUTUM CULTURE; THROAT CULTURE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; FECES; GENETICS; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; SPUTUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CRONOBACTER; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FECES; FEMALE; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; SPUTUM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84941351360     PISSN: 09349723     EISSN: 14354373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10096-015-2440-8     Document Type: Article

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