Detection of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in the beef marketed in Malaysia

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1153-1156

  Radu, Son ^a   Mutalib, Shahilah Abdul ^a   Rusul, Gulam ^a   Ahmad, Zainori ^a   Morigaki, Tadaaki ^b   Asai, Norio ^b   Kim, Yung Bu ^c,d   Okuda, Jun ^c   Nishibuchi, Mitsuaki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b Kyoto Pref Inst Hygienic/ES   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Pusan National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTISERUM; CARBENICILLIN; CEFALOTIN; CEFTIZOXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; RIFAMPICIN; SHIGA TOXIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; MALAYSIA; MEAT; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPE;

EID: 0031910885     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.3.1153-1156.1998     Document Type: Article

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