Detection of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 by using a multiplex real-time PCR assay for genes encoding intimin and Shiga toxins

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 247-260

  Sharma, Vijay K ^a   Dean Nystrom, Evelyn A ^a  

^a NATIONAL ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Hemorrhagic colitis; Shiga toxins

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; INTIMIN; ISOPROTEIN; PROTEIN EAE; PROTEIN STX; SHIGA TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HEMORRHAGIC COLITIS; INTESTINE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPING;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037472216     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1135(03)00039-7     Document Type: Article

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