Inducible stx2 phages are lysogenized in the enteroaggregative and other phenotypic Escherichia coli O86:HNM isolated from patients

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 7-10

  Iyoda, Sunao ^a   Tamura, Kazumichi ^a   Itoh, Kenichiro ^b   Izumiya, Hidemasa ^a   Ueno, Nobuhiro ^c   Nagata, Kohji ^c   Togo, Masami ^c   Terajima, Jun ^a   Watanabe, Haruo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^c Kagoshima Prefectual Pub Hlth I ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli; O86; Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli; Stx2 converting phage

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL ADHESION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC MARKER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYSOGENIZATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELLS, CULTURED; COLIPHAGES; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; LYSOGENY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN II; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VIRULENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0034308009     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00360-8     Document Type: Article

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