Prevalence of non-O157 escherichia coli strains among Shiga-like toxin-producing (SLTEC) isolates in the region of lower Silesia, Poland

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 219-221

  Sobieszczańska, Beata ^a   Gryko, Romuald ^b   Kuzko, Katarzyna ^a   Dworniczek, Ewa ^a  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b Biological Threat Identification and Countermeasure Centre of the Military   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; VEROTOXIN; VEROTOXIN 1; VEROTOXIN 2;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PATHOGENESIS; POLAND; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPE; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; VERO CELL;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN I; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN II;

EID: 2442608749     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540410019363     Document Type: Article

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