Isolation from a sheep of an attaching and effacing Escherichia coli O115:H- with a novel combination of virulence factors

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1041-1049

  Cookson, Adrian L ^a,c   Hayes, Christine M ^b   Pearson, Geoffrey R ^b   Roe, John M ^b   Wales, Andrew D ^b   Woodward, Martin J ^a  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TEMPLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE POOL; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; SHEEP;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0036908773     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-51-12-1041     Document Type: Article

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