Detection and characterization of shiga toxigenic escherichia coli by using multiplex PCR assays for stx1, stx2, eaeA, enterohemorrhagic E. coli hlyA, rfb(O111), and rfb(O157)

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 598-602

  Paton, Adrienne W ^a   Paton, James C ^a  

^a WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHIGA TOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031975950     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.2.598-602.1998     Document Type: Article

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