Article
Characterization of the cryptic Escherichia lineages: rapid identification and prevalence.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Sept 2011
Clermont Olivier, Gordon David M, Brisse Sylvain, Walk Seth T, Denamur Erick
Abstract excerpt
Strains phenotypically indistinguishable from Escherichia coli and belonging to at least five distinct cryptic lineages, named Escherichia clades I to V, that are genetically divergent from E. coli yet members of the genus have been recently found using multi-locus sequence typing (MLST). Very few epidemiological data are available on these strains as their detection by MLST is not suitable for large-scale...
Topics
- Animals
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Birds
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Feces
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genotype
- Humans
- Mammals
- Multilocus Sequence Typing