multidrug-resistant diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli isolates ... enteroaggregative E. coli heat-stable enterotoxin 1 (astA) and enteroinvasive mechanism (invE).
Epidemiol. Infect. (2005), 133, 627–633. f 2005 Cambridge University Press doi :10.1017/S0950268805003870 Printed in the United Kingdom
Detection of virulence-related genes by multiplex PCR in multidrug-resistant diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli isolates from Kenya and Japan
C. C. B II 1,2, H. T A GU C HI 2, T. T. O U KO 1, L. W. M UI T A 1, N. W A M A E 1 2 A N D S. KA MI Y A * 1
Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Infectious Diseases, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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(Accepted 4 January 2005) SUMMARY We compared serotypes, drug susceptibility and presence of virulence-related genes in diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli isolates from children
