Isolation of verotoxigenic Escherichia coli from the Tasmanian environment

Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 271-279

  Manandhar, R ^a   Bettiol, S S ^a   Bettelheim, K A ^b   Goldsmid, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b FAIRFIELD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Enterohaemolysin; Escherichia coli; Food borne; Tasmania; Verotoxin; VTEC

Indexed keywords

HEMOLYSIN; VEROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CONTAMINATION; MEAT; NONHUMAN; SEROTYPE; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; DIARRHEA; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; MEAT; SEROTYPING; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN I; TASMANIA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030753333     PISSN: 01479571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0147-9571(96)00033-1     Document Type: Article

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