Distribution, detection of enterotoxigenic strains and antimicrobial drug susceptibility patterns of Bacteroides fragilis group in diarrheic and non-diarrheic feces from Brazilian infants

Despite the importance of gastrointestinal diseases and their global distribution, affecting millions of individuals around the world, the role and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of anaerobic bacteria such as those in the Bacteroides fragilis group (BFG) are still unclear in young children. T...

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Main Authors: Débora Paula Ferreira, Vânia Lúcia Silva, Danielle Aparecida Guimarães, Cíntia Marques Coelho, Danielle Alves Gomes Zauli, Luiz Macêdo Farias, Maria Auxiliadora Roque Carvalho, Claudio Galuppo Diniz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia 2010-10-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822010000300010