Survival rate of mice after transient colonization with Escherichia coli clones carrying variant Shiga-like toxin type II operons

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 377-383

  Paton, James C ^a   Paton, Adrienne W ^a  

^a WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; oral virulence; Shiga like toxin II; transient colonization; verotoxin

Indexed keywords

VEROTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTESTINE FLORA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; VERO CELL;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030010627     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpat.1996.0035     Document Type: Article

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