Epidemiological study of a food-borne outbreak of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli O25:NM by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 652-656

  Mitsuda, Toshihiro ^a   Muto, Tetsunori ^b   Yamada, Mikiko ^b   Kobayashi, Nobuyoshi ^b   Toba, Masanori ^b   Aihara, Yukoh ^a   Ito, Akira ^a   Yokota, Shumpei ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Yokohama City Institute of Health   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; DNA DETERMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEROTYPING;

EID: 0031914934     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.3.652-656.1998     Document Type: Article

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