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Molecular epidemiological typing of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli strains from Australian patients.
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease - 1 Mar 2013
Staples Megan, Doyle Christine J, Graham Rikki M A, Jennison Amy V
Abstract excerpt
Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) are an important cause of diarrhoea worldwide, particularly in children. Sixty-one EPEC strains isolated from stool specimens of symptomatic persons from 2008 to 2011 were characterised for the prevalence of diarrhoea-associated putative virulence genes. Phylogenetic typing, serotyping, multilocus variable-number repeat analysis (MLVA), and multilocus sequence typing...
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