A challenging STEC strain isolation from patients' stools: an O166:H15 STEC strain with the stx2 gene.
Surangi H ThilakarathnaVincent LiLinda ChuiPublished in: Microbiology spectrum (2024)
gene. It was particularly challenging to isolate this strain from stools by culture. Consequently, we tested immunomagnetic separation for the STEC recovery, which was a novel approach on clinical stools. Virulence genes were included for the characterization of these isolates.
Keyphrases
- genome wide
- end stage renal disease
- genome wide identification
- newly diagnosed
- copy number
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- peritoneal dialysis
- staphylococcus aureus
- pseudomonas aeruginosa
- biofilm formation
- dna methylation
- genome wide analysis
- transcription factor
- mass spectrometry
- antimicrobial resistance
- genetic diversity
- bioinformatics analysis