Translocated intimin receptors (Tir) of Shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli isolates belonging to serogroups O26, O111, and O157 react with sera from patients with hemolytic-uremic syndrome and exhibit marked sequence heterogeneity

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 5580-5586

  Paton, Adrienne W ^a   Manning, Paul A ^b   Woodrow, Matthew C ^a   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

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL TOXIN; SHIGA TOXIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROTYPE;

EID: 0032412106     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.11.5580-5586.1998     Document Type: Article

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