The enterohemolysin phenotype of bovine Shiga-like toxin-producing Escherichia coli (SLTEC) is encoded by the EHEC-hemolysin gene

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 153-164

  Wieler, Lothar H ^a   Tigges, Magdalene ^a   Ebel, Frank ^a   Schäferkord, Silke ^a   Djafari, Soudabeh ^a   Schlapp, Tobias ^a   Baijer, Georg ^a   Chakraborty, Trinad ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

EHEC hemolysin; enterohemolysis; Escherichia coli; plasmid; Shiga like toxin producing; zoonosis

Indexed keywords

VEROTOXIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030248943     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1135(96)00058-2     Document Type: Article

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