Diarrheal and environmental isolates of Aeromonas spp. produce a toxin similar to Shiga-like toxin 1

Current Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 239-245

  Haque, Quazi Manjurul ^a   Sugiyama, Akira ^b   Iwade, Yoshito ^b   Midorikawa, Yutaka ^c   Yamauchi, Toru ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Mie Pref Institute of Public Health   (Japan)

^c SUZUKA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI ENDOTOXIN; SHIGA TOXIN;

AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VERO CELL;

AEROMONAS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; DIARRHEA; ENTEROTOXINS; MICE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABBITS; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN I; VERO CELLS;

EID: 0029914833     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002849900043     Document Type: Article

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