Serotypes and Shiga toxin genotypes among Escherichia coli isolated from animals and food in Argentina and Brazil

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 335-349

  Guth, Beatriz E C ^a   Chinen, Isabel ^b   Miliwebsky, Elizabeth ^b   Cerqueira, Aloysio M F ^a,c   Chillemi, Germán ^b   Andrade, João R C ^d   Baschkier, Ariela ^b   Rivas, Marta ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Administracion Nacional de Laboratorios E Institutos de Salud Dr Carlos G Malbran   (Argentina)

^c FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Animals; Argentina; Brazil; Food; STEC; Virulence

Indexed keywords

SHIGA TOXIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRAZIL; CATTLE; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVALUATION; FOOD; FOOD ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MEAT; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0037472039     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1135(02)00420-0     Document Type: Article

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