Description of a novel intimin variant (type ζ) in the bovine O84:NM verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli strain 537/89 and the diagnostic value of intimin typing

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 228, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 370-376

  Jores, Joerg ^a   Zehmke, Karen ^a   Eichberg, Juergen ^a   Rumer, Leonid ^a   Wieler, Lothar H ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Escherichia coli; Food borne pathogens; Intimin types; Verotoxins

Indexed keywords

INTIMIN; INTIMIN ALPHA; INTIMIN BETA; INTIMIN DELTA; INTIMIN EPSILON; INTIMIN ZETA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEROTOXIN; ADHESIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; EAEA PROTEIN, E COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; SHIGA TOXIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL LINEAGE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIARRHEA; EAE GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI 0150 NM; ESCHERICHIA COLI O119 H25; ESCHERICHIA COLI O84 H2; ESCHERICHIA COLI O84 NM; ESCHERICHIA COLI O92 NM; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; INTESTINE CELL; LEE PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN VARIANT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROTYPE; SEROTYPING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TYPE STRAIN; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL LINE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CATTLE; CELL LINE; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SHIGA TOXINS;

EID: 0038777185     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153537020322800407     Document Type: Article

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