Molecular Analysis of Shiga Toxigenic Escherichia coli O111:H- Proteins Which React with Sera from Patients with Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1467-1472

  Voss, Elena ^a,b   Paton, Adrienne W ^a   Manning, Paul A ^b   Paton, James C ^a  

^a WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; EAEA PROTEIN, E COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 0032037665     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.4.1467-1472.1998     Document Type: Article

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