Clermont Olivier, Bonacorsi Stéphane, Bingen Edouard
Laboratoire d'Etudes de Génétique Bactérienne dans les Infections de l'Enfant (EA3105), Université Denis Diderot-Paris 7, France.
J Clin Microbiol. 2004 Apr;42(4):1770-2. doi: 10.1128/JCM.42.4.1770-1772.2004.
An anonymous 14.9-kb rrn-containing HindIII fragment is strongly linked to Escherichia coli strains causing neonatal meningitis. We show in this report that this fragment does not encode new virulence factors but lacks arpA, a gene common in avirulent E. coli strains, and we developed a PCR test to detect this fragment.
一个含有rrn的14.9千碱基对的匿名HindIII片段与引起新生儿脑膜炎的大肠杆菌菌株紧密相关。我们在本报告中表明,该片段不编码新的毒力因子,而是缺少无毒力大肠杆菌菌株中常见的arpA基因,并且我们开发了一种PCR检测方法来检测该片段。