Evaluation of automated ribotyping system for characterization and indentification of verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli isolated in Japan

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 56, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 200-204

  Ito, Yuji ^a   Iinuma, Yoshitsugu ^b   Baba, Hisashi ^a   Sugino, Yasuteru ^a   Hasegawa, Yoshinori ^a   Shimokata, Kaoru ^a   Ichiyama, Satoshi ^b   Hasegawa, Tadao ^a   Ohta, Michio ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHIGA TOXIN; VEROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RIBOTYPING; SEROTYPE; SEROTYPING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; HUMANS; JAPAN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RIBOTYPING; SEROTYPING; SHIGA TOXINS;

EID: 1142275118     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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