Isolation of Escherichia coli O5: H -, possessing genes for Shiga toxin 1, intimin-β and enterohaemolysin, from an intestinal biopsy from an adult case of bloody diarrhoea: Evidence for two distinct O5: H - pathotypes

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 605-607

  McLean, Catriona ^a   Bettelheim, Karl A ^b   Kuzevski, Alexander ^b   Falconer, Linda ^c   Djordjevic, Steven P ^c  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c NSW AGRICULTURE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTEROHEMOLYSIN; HEMOLYSIN; INTIMIN; INTIMIN BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREASE; VEROTOXIN 1;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CASE REPORT; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ENZYME RELEASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O5 H; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ISOLATION; HEMATOCHEZIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE BIOPSY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BIOPSY; DYSENTERY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN I;

EID: 20344370221     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.45938-0     Document Type: Article

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