An ileX tRNA gene is located close to the Shiga toxin II operon in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 and non-O157 strains

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 39-44

  Schmidt, H ^a   Scheef, J ^a   Janetzki Mittmann, C ^a   Datz, M ^a   Karch, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage; Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli; ileX; Non O157; O157; tRNA gene

Indexed keywords

SHIGA TOXIN; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COSMIDS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, BACTERIAL; OPERON; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, TRANSFER, ILE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHIGA TOXINS;

EID: 0030997971     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00051-7     Document Type: Article

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