High genomic diversity of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli isolates in Japan and its applicability for the detection of diffuse outbreak

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 19-22

  Terajima, Jun ^a   Izumiya, Hidemasa ^a   Iyoda, Sunao ^a   Tamura, Kazumichi ^a   Watanabe, Haruo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHIGA TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEROTOXIN 2;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; JAPAN; PHYLOGENY; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN II; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036111912     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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