Evolutionary relationships among pathogenic and nonpathogenic Escherichia coli strains inferred from multilocus enzyme electrophoresis and mdh sequence studies

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2685-2692

  Pupo, Gulietta M ^a   Karaolis, David K R ^a,b   Lan, Ruiting ^a   Reeves, Peter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0031004145     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.7.2685-2692.1997     Document Type: Article

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