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[Revised prevalence of afa+ Escherichia coli strains in acute pyelonephritis of children].
Pathologie-biologie - 1 Oct 2003
Licznar P, Eychenne I, Azéma C, Decramer S, Bouissou F, Fayet O, Prère M-F
Abstract excerpt
Two hundred E. coli strains isolated from children with pyelonephritis were investigated for the presence of six virulence factors. The used primers amplified adhesin pap and sfa, toxin haemolysin (hly) and cytotoxic necrotizing factor 1 (cnf1) and aerobactin (aer). For afimbrial adhesin, the previously used set of primers could not allow to detect the newly reported afa operons (Le Bouguenec et al., 2001). With...
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