Toxin Genotypes and Plasmid Profiles As Determinants of Systemic Sequelae in Escherichia Coli 0157:H7 Infections

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 160, Issue 6, 1989, Pages 994-998

  Ostroff, Stephen M ^a,b   Tarr, Phillip I ^a,b   Neill, Marguerite A ^a,b   Lewis, Jay H ^a,b   Hargrett Bean, Nancy ^a,b   Kobayashi, John M ^a,b  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; TOXIN; VEROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOTYPE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA;

AGE FACTORS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENOTYPE; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; PLASMIDS; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN I; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN II; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0024369158     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/160.6.994     Document Type: Article

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