Analysis of the enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 DNA region containing lambdoid phage gene p and shiga-like toxin structural genes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 791-797

  Datz, Martina ^a   Janetzki Mittmann, Claudia ^a   Franke, Sylvia ^a,b   Gunzer, Florian ^a,c   Schmidt, Herbert ^a   Karch, Helge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; VEROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STRUCTURAL GENE;

EID: 0030053593     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.3.791-797.1996     Document Type: Article

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