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Genotypic and phenotypic comparison of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli isolates from HIV-positive and non-HIV diarrheal samples.
Current HIV research - 1 Dec 2013
Jafari Anis, Shafaei Ebrahim, Oloomi Mana, Aghasadeghi Mohammad-Reza, Bouzari Saeid
Abstract excerpt
Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) have been isolated from both HIV-positive and non-HIV diarrheal samples. In this study a collection of 18 isolates from these two groups were compared for biofilm formation and antibiotic resistance and for the presence of 14 virulence-related genes. All the HIV-positive and over 66% of the non- HIV strains were PCR-negative for adhesion-related sequences indicating that...
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