Clonal diversity of Chilean isolates of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli from patients with hemolytic-uremic syndrome, asymptomatic subjects, animal reservoirs, and food products

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 778-781

  Rios, Maritza ^a,d   Prado, Valeria ^a   Trucksis, Michele ^b   Arellano, Carolina ^a   Borie, Consuelo ^a   Alexandre, Marcela ^c   Fica, Alberto ^a   Levine, Myron M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development   (United States)

^c Servicio de Salud Metropolitano Central   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILE; CLONAL ANERGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTAMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

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

EID: 0032999817     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.3.778-781.1999     Document Type: Article

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