Molecular microbiological investigation of an outbreak of hemolytic-uremic syndrome caused by dry fermented sausage contaminated with Shiga-like toxin-producing Escherichia coli

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1622-1627

  Paton, Adrienne W ^a   Ratcliff, Rodney M ^b   Doyle, Robyn M ^b   Seymour Murray, Janine ^b   Davos, Dianne ^b   Lanser, Janice A ^b   Paton, James C ^a  

^a WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLITIS; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA PRIMERS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FECES; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; MEAT PRODUCTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN I; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0029927272     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.34.7.1622-1627.1996     Document Type: Article

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