Expression of cytotoxicity by potential pathogens in the standard Escherichia coli collection of reference (ECOR) strains

Microbiology

Volumn 145, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 3295-3303

  Lai, Xin He ^a,b   Wang, Su Yan ^b   Uhlin, Bernt Eric ^b  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cytotoxicity; ECOR; Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli; Enteroaggregative heat stable enterotoxin; Haemolysin

Indexed keywords

HEMOLYSIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA PROBE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MACROPHAGE; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032721627     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-145-11-3295     Document Type: Article

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