Evidence for A Hybrid Genomic Island in Verocytotoxin-Producing Escherichia coli CL3 (Serotype O113:H21) Containing Segments of EDL933 (Serotype O157:H7) O Islands 122 and 48

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1496-1503

  Shen, Songhai ^a   Mascarenhas, Mariola ^a   Rahn, Kris ^a   Kaper, James B ^b   Karmal, Mohamed A ^a,c  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VEROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMIC ISLAND; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HYBRID GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ADHESINS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME WALKING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; SEROTYPING; SHIGA TOXINS; TRANSPOSASES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 1342281369     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.3.1496-1503.2004     Document Type: Article

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