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Prevalence of Escherichia coli Carrying pks Islands in Bacteremia Patients

Escherichia coli can harbor genomic pks islands that code for a polyketide-peptide genotoxin known as colibactin. E. coli strains carrying pks islands trigger genetic instability. pks islands have been significantly associated with bacteremia. We investigated the molecular epidemiology of bacteremic...

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Autores principales: Lee, Eunyoung, Lee, Yangsoon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Laboratory Medicine 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5820074/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29401564
http://dx.doi.org/10.3343/alm.2018.38.3.271