Combined use of bacteriophage typing and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis in the epidemiological analysis of Japanese isolates of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 515-519

  Izumiya, Hidemasa ^a   Masuda, Takashi ^b   Ahmed, Rafiq ^c   Khakhria, Rasik ^c   Wada, Akihito ^a   Terajima, Jun ^a   Itoh, Ken Ichiro ^a   Johnson, Wendy M ^c   Konuma, Hirotaka ^d   Shinagawa, Kunihiro ^e   Tamura, Kazumichi ^a   Watanabe, Haruo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b Shizuoka Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Science   (Japan)

^c LAB CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^e IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage typing; EHEC O157:H7; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DNA DEGRADATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RELIABILITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031902088     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1998.tb02318.x     Document Type: Article

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