Complete nucleotide sequence of the prophage VT2-Sakai carrying the verotoxin 2 genes of the enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 derived from the Sakai outbreak

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 227-239

  Makino, Kozo ^a   Yokoyama, Katsushi ^a   Kubota, Yoshino ^a   Yutsudo, Chikako H ^a   Kimura, Sigenobu ^a   Kurokawa, Ken ^a   Ishii, Kazuo ^b   Hattori, Masahiro ^b,c   Tatsuno, Ichiro ^c   Abe, Hiroyuki ^c   Iida, Tetsuya ^a   Yamamoto, Koichiro ^a   Onishi, Makoto ^d   Hayashi, Tetsuya ^d   Yasunaga, Teruo ^a   Honda, Takeshi ^a   Sasakawa, Chihiro ^c   Shinagawa, Hideo ^a,e  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; VEROTOXIN;

BACTERIAL GENE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENE CONTROL; GENE REARRANGEMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PROPHAGE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; COLIPHAGES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, VIRAL; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; JAPAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN II; TERMINATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); VIRUS INTEGRATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI 0157; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0033387903     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.74.227     Document Type: Conference Paper

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