Laboratory investigation of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli O untypeable:H10 associated with a massive outbreak of gastrointestinal illness

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2546-2550

  Itoh, Yoshihiro ^a   Nagano, Isao ^a   Kunishima, Miyuki ^b   Ezaki, Takayuki ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Gifu Prefectural Institute of Health and Environmental Sciences   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GASTROENTERITIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPING;

ASTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030822551     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.35.10.2546-2550.1997     Document Type: Article

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