The eaeA gene is not found in Hafnia alvei from patients with diarrhea in Aragón, Spain.
A total of 102 Hafnia alvei clinical strains isolated from different patients with diarrhea has been tested, using polymerase chain reaction and dot-blot hybridization, for the enteropathogenic Escherichia coli attaching and effacing A (eaeA) gene to establish their role as a causative agent of diarrhea in our environment. None of them was positive for the eaeA gene. We cannot consider the eaeA gene as the virulence-associated factor implicated in the H. alvei strains isolated from diarrheal feces in our region.
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University Hospital Lozano Blesa, Zaragoza, Spain.
Castillo
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Llorente
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Varea
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Clavel
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Rubio
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Gómez-Lus
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D018829:Adhesins, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D004756:Enterobacteriaceae Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D020611:Hafnia alvei / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology
D018829:Adhesins, Bacterial; D002352:Carrier Proteins; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; C073819:eaeA protein, E coli