Dairy farm investigation on Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) in Kolkata, India with emphasis on molecular characterization

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 617-626

  Das, S C ^a   Khan, A ^b   Panja, P ^a   Datta, S ^b   Sikdar, A ^a   Yamasaki, S ^c   Takeda, Y ^d   Bhattacharya, S K ^b   Ramamurthy, T ^b   Nair, G Balakrish ^e  

^a INDIAN VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

^c Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^d JISSEN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFALOTIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; HEMOLYSIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NEOMYCIN; NORFLOXACIN; SHIGA TOXIN; SORBITOL; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DAIRYING; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INDIA; MILK; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SCREENING;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DAIRYING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; HUMANS; INDIA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; RURAL POPULATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHIGA TOXINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 22544445588     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268805004000     Document Type: Article

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