Article
Poultry as reservoir for extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli O45:K1:H7-B2-ST95 in humans.
Veterinary microbiology - 27 Dec 2013
Mora Azucena, Viso Susana, López Cecilia, Alonso María Pilar, García-Garrote Fernando, Dabhi Ghizlane, Mamani Rosalía, Herrera Alexandra, Marzoa Juan, Blanco Miguel, Blanco Jesús E, Moulin-Schouleur Maryvonne, Schouler Catherine, Blanco Jorge
Abstract excerpt
Escherichia coli strains O45:K1:H7 are implicated in severe human infections such as meningitis. Since an increasing prevalence of serogroup O45 among avian pathogenic (APEC) and human extraintestinal pathogenic (ExPEC) E. coli strains isolated in Spain have been noticed, the aims of the present study were to investigate similarities between poultry and human O45 isolates, and to investigate the evolutionary...
Topics
- Animals
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Disease Reservoirs
- Drug Resistance, Bacterial
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Infections
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Genotype
- Humans
- Multilocus Sequence Typing