Isolation and characterization of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and shiga toxin-converting bacteriophages from strains of human, bovine and porcine origin

Water Science and Technology: Water Supply

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 29-38

  Muller E E ^a   Taylor, M B ^a   Grabow, W O K ^a   Ehlers, M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

E. coli O157:H7; Enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus; Immunomagnetic separation; Toxin converting bacteriophages

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGES; DNA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENES; SEWAGE; TOXIC MATERIALS; WATER;

NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

RIVER WATER; SHIGA TOXIN;

BACTERIOPHAGE; SEWAGE;

BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATTLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEWAGE; SWINE; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE; VIOLA (ANGIOSPERM);

EID: 0036339604     PISSN: 16069749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/ws.2002.0082     Document Type: Conference Paper

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