Laboratory-based surveillance of human verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli infection in the Republic of Ireland, 2002-2004

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1163-1169

  Carroll, Anne M ^a   Gibson, Aidan ^a   McNamara, Eleanor B ^a  

^a Cherry Orchard Hospital Dublin   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENOTYPE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; IRELAND; LABORATORY TEST; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RURAL AREA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; HUMANS; IRELAND; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPING;

EID: 28944446743     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46147-0     Document Type: Article

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