Development of PCR assays targeting the genes involved in synthesis and assembly of the new Escherichia coli O174 and O177 O antigens

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 5143-5149

  Beutin, Lothar ^a,b   Kong, Qingke ^c   Feng, Lu ^c   Wang, Quan ^c   Krause, Gladys ^b,d   Leomil, Luciana ^a,e   Jin, Qi ^f   Wang, Lei ^c  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

^c NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^f National Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Genetic Engineering   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; EPIMERASE; FUCOSAMINE SYNTHETASE; FUCOSAMINE TRANSFERASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; HYDROLYASE; O ANTIGEN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SYNTHETASE; TRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR; WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O174; ESCHERICHIA COLI O177; FOOD ANALYSIS; GENE CLUSTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROTYPING; WATER ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; O ANTIGENS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 26944468284     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.10.5143-5149.2005     Document Type: Article

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