Detection of hemolysin variants of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli by PCR and culture on vancomycin-cefixime-cefsulodin blood agar

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2449-2453

  Lehmacher, Anselm ^a   Meier, Heidi ^a   Aleksic, Stojanka ^a   Bockemühl, Jochen ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; CEFIXIME; CEFSULODIN; GENE PRODUCT; HEMOLYSIN; SHIGA TOXIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DIARRHEA; EDEMA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HEMORRHAGIC COLITIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERRATIA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SERRATIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 0031844803     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.7.2449-2453.1998     Document Type: Article

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