Prevalence and genetic profiling of virulence determinants of non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli isolated from cattle, beef, and humans, Calcutta, India

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 54-62

  Khan, Asis ^a   Yamasaki, Shinji ^b   Sato, Toshio ^c   Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan ^b   Pal, Amit ^c   Datta, Simanti ^d   Chowdhury, Nandini Roy ^e   Das, Suresh Chandra ^f   Sikdar, Asim ^d   Tsukamoto, Teizo ^c   Bhattacharya, Sujit Kumar ^e   Takeda, Yoshifumi ^f   Nair, Gopinath Balakrish ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c INDIAN VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^d OSAKA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^f INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHIGA TOXIN;

ALLELISM; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BEEF CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DIARRHEA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 0036156406     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0801.010104     Document Type: Article

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