Clonal Relatedness of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) Strains Expressing LT and CS17 Isolated from Children with Diarrhoea in La Paz, Bolivia

dc.contributor.authorClaudia Rodas
dc.contributor.authorJohn D. Klena
dc.contributor.authorMatilda Nicklasson
dc.contributor.authorVolga Iñiguez
dc.contributor.authorÅsa Sjöling
dc.coverage.spatialBolivia
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-22T14:37:14Z
dc.date.available2026-03-22T14:37:14Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.descriptionCitaciones: 16
dc.description.abstractThe results showed that although the LT/CS17 phenotype is common among ETEC strains in Bolivia, multiple clones, as determined by unique MLST sequence types, populate this phenotype. Our data also appear to suggest that acquisition and loss of antimicrobial resistance in LT-expressing CS17 ETEC clones is more dynamic than acquisition or loss of virulence factors.
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0018313
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018313
dc.identifier.urihttps://andeanlibrary.org/handle/123456789/47572
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherPublic Library of Science
dc.relation.ispartofPLoS ONE
dc.sourceHigher University of San Andrés
dc.subjectMultilocus sequence typing
dc.subjectEnterotoxigenic Escherichia coli
dc.subjectBiology
dc.subjectMicrobiology
dc.subjectEnterotoxin
dc.subjectVirulence
dc.subjectTyping
dc.subjectSerotype
dc.subjectAntibiotic resistance
dc.subjectSequence analysis
dc.titleClonal Relatedness of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) Strains Expressing LT and CS17 Isolated from Children with Diarrhoea in La Paz, Bolivia
dc.typearticle

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