Identification of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O26:H- genes required for intestinal colonization in calves

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1735-1743

  Van Diemen, Pauline M ^a   Dziva, Francis ^a   Stevens, Mark P ^a   Wallis, Timothy S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL VACCINE; CYTOTOXIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CATTLE; DRUG DESIGN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUROPE; FIMBRIA; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; INTESTINE CELL; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; UNITED STATES; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BACTERIAL GENE; CATTLE DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTESTINE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SEROTYPING; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FECES; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; SEROTYPING;

EID: 15544366128     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.3.1735-1743.2005     Document Type: Article

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