Characterization of two major groups of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli O26 strains which are globally spread in human patients and domestic animals of different species

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 249, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 335-342

  Leomil, Luciana ^a,b   Pestana De Castro, Antonio Fernando ^b   Krause, Gladys ^a,c   Schmidt, Herbert ^d   Beutin, Lothar ^a,c  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animals; Enterohemorrhagic; Enteropathogenic; Escherichia coli O26; Genotypes; Humans

Indexed keywords

GALACTITOL; GENE PRODUCT; HEMOLYSIN; RHAMNOSE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; DIARRHEA; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 23644458930     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2005.06.030     Document Type: Article

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