Differentiation of F18ab+ from F18ab+ Escherichia coli by single-strand conformational polymorphism analysis of the major fimbrial subunit gene (fedA)

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 299-302

  Bosworth, Brad T ^a   Dean Nystrom, Evelyn A ^a   Casey, Thomas A ^a   Neibergs, Holly L ^a,b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; FEDA PROTEIN, E COLI; FIMBRIA PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHORESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; IMMUNOASSAY; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SECRETION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 0031596864     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.5.3.299-302.1998     Document Type: Article

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