Prevalence of the genes for shigella enterotoxins 1 and 2 among clinical isolates of shigella in Israel

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 533-535

  Yavzori, M ^a   Cohen, D ^a,b   Orr, N ^a,b,c  

^a MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Research Branch   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN; SHIGELLA VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; ISRAEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPE; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLOSIS; STORAGE; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPING; SHIGA TOXIN; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0036289076     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268802006866     Document Type: Article

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