Characterization of AfaE adhesins produced by extraintestinal and intestinal human Escherichia coli isolates: PCR assays for detection of Afa adhesins that do or do not recognize Dr blood group antigens.
Le Bouguénec C, Lalioui L, du Merle L, Jouve M, Courcoux P, Bouzari S, Selvarangan R, Nowicki BJ, Germani Y, Andremont A, Gounon P, Garcia MI.
Le Bouguénec C, et al.
J Clin Microbiol. 2001 May;39(5):1738-45. doi: 10.1128/JCM.39.5.1738-1745.2001.
J Clin Microbiol. 2001.
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The recently demonstrated heterogeneity of these operons (L. Lalioui, M. Jouve, P. Gounon, and C. Le Bouguenec, Infect. Immun. 67:5048-5059, 1999) was used to develop a new PCR assay for detecting all the operons of the afa family with a single genetic tool. …
The recently demonstrated heterogeneity of these operons (L. Lalioui, M. Jouve, P. Gounon, and C. Le Bouguenec, Infect. …