Bovine attaching and effacing Escherichia coli possess a pathogenesis island related to the LEE of the human enteropathogenic Escherichia coli strain E2348/69

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 415-421

  Goffaux, Frederic ^a   Mainil, Jacques ^a   Pirson, Vinciane ^a   Charlier, Gerard ^b   Pohl, Pierre ^b   Jacquemin, Etienne ^a   China, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b Belgian National Institute for Veterinary Research   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bovine attaching effacing Escherichia coli; Lee; Pathogenesis island

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTESTINE LOOP; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABBITS;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0030827039     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00362-5     Document Type: Article

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