Correlation between geographic distance and genetic similarity in an international collection of bovine faecal Escherichia coli O157:H7 isolates

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 923-930

  Davis, M A ^a,b   Hancock, D D ^a   Besser, T E ^a   Rice, D H ^a   Hovde, C J ^b   Digiacomo, R ^c   Samadpour, M ^c   Call, D R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CALCULATION; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FECES ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HYPOTHESIS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LATITUDE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; GEOGRAPHY;

EID: 0142242128     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268803008884     Document Type: Article

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