Laboratory investigation of an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak associated with swimming in Battle Ground Lake, Vancouver, Washington

Journal of Environmental Health

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 16-20

  Samadpour, Mansour ^a   Stewart, Jeff ^a   Steingart, Karen ^a   Addy, Carl ^a   Louderback, John ^a   McGinn, Marty ^a   Ellington, Joe ^a   Newman, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BATHING WATER; LABORATORY METHOD;

BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; REVIEW; SWIMMING; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER SAMPLING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DUCK; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; RECREATION; SEDIMENT; VIRULENCE;

ANIMAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DUCKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECREATION; SWIMMING; VIRULENCE; WASHINGTON; ANIMALS; HUMANS;

UNITED STATES;

BACTERIAL DNA;

EID: 0036598374     PISSN: 00220892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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