Evolution of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli hemolysin plasmids and the locus for enterocyte effacement in Shiga toxin-producing E. coli

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2553-2561

  Boerlin, Patrick ^a,b   Chen, Shu ^a   Colbourne, John K ^a   Johnson, Roger ^a,c   De Grandis, Stephanie ^a   Gyles, Carlton ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Health of Animals Laboratory   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOLYSIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; INTESTINE CELL; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031865883     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.6.2553-2561.1998     Document Type: Article

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