Serotypes, intimin variants and other virulence factors of eae positive Escherichia coli strains isolated from healthy cattle in Switzerland. Identification of a new intimin variant gene (eae-η2)

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Blanco, Miguel ^a   Schumacher, Sandra ^b   Tasara, Taurai ^b   Zweifel, Claudio ^b   Blanco, Jesús E ^a   Dahbi, Ghizlane ^a   Blanco, Jorge ^a   Stephan, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTEROHEMOLYSIN; HEMOLYSIN; INTIMIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATTLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; SEROTYPE; SWITZERLAND;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANIMALS; CATTLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENETIC VARIATION; HEALTH; PHYLOGENY; SEROTYPING; SWITZERLAND; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ASTA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 21744449759     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-5-23     Document Type: Article

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