| Literature DB >> 12770708 |
Roni S Adiri1, Uri Gophna, Eliora Z Ron.
Abstract
Strains of Escherichia coli serotype O78 are associated with many diseases, including invasive infections, in humans and farm animals. The clonal relationship between strains from different hosts is therefore important for assessing the risk of zoonotic infections. Here we propose a multilocus sequence typing scheme for E. coli, based on six housekeeping genes. Preliminary, but significant, results indicate that clonal division in E. coli O78 strains is host independent, and closely related clones reside in different hosts. There was a positive correlation between virulence and clonal origin.Entities:
Mesh:
Substances:
Year: 2003 PMID: 12770708 DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00295-7
Source DB: PubMed Journal: FEMS Microbiol Lett ISSN: 0378-1097 Impact factor: 2.742