Article
Beyond serotypes and virulence-associated factors: detection of genetic diversity among O153:H45 CFA/I heat-stable enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli strains.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Dec 2001
Pacheco A B, Ferreira L C, Pichel M G, Almeida D F, Binsztein N, Viboud G I
Abstract excerpt
Characterization of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) has been based almost exclusively on the detection of phenotypic traits such as serotypes and virulence-associated factors: heat-labile (LT) and heat-stable (ST) toxins and colonization factors (CFs). In the present work we show that the analysis of band patterns generated by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis and pulsed-field gel...
Topics
- Bacterial Proteins
- Bacterial Toxins
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- DNA, Bacterial
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- Enterotoxins
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Infections
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Fimbriae Proteins
- Genetic Variation
- Humans