Epidemiological relatedness and clonal types of natural populations of Escherichia coli strains producing shiga toxins in separate populations of cattle and sheep

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2175-2180

  Beutin, Lothar ^a   Geier, Dorothee ^a   Zimmermann, Sonja ^a   Aleksic, Stojanka ^b   Gillespie, Harold A ^c   Whittam, Thomas S ^c  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b Dr Brill Partner GmbH Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology   (Germany)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHIGA TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATTLE; DNA PROBE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; SEROTYPE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; OVIS ARIES; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0030984904     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.6.2175-2180.1997     Document Type: Article

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