Detection and characterization of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli from seagulls

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 55-61

  Makino, S ^a   Kobori, H ^a   Asakura, H ^a   Watarai, M ^a   Shirahata, T ^a   Ikeda, T ^b   Takeshi, K ^b   Tsukamoto, T ^c  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^c OSAKA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL DNA; CEFDINIR; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; FOSFOMYCIN; HEMOLYSIN; KANAMYCIN; MINOCYCLINE; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; SHIGA TOXIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; VEROTOXIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIRD; CYTOTOXICITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TOXICITY TESTING; VERO CELL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; CARRIER STATE; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; JAPAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHIGA TOXIN;

EID: 0033778847     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268899004100     Document Type: Article

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