Sorbitol-fermenting shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157: Indications for an animal reservoir

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 719-723

  Orth, D ^a   Grif, Katharina ^a,b   Dierich, M P ^a   Wurzner R ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b Department of Hygiene Microbiology and Social Medicine ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOLYSIN; SORBITOL;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BOY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CARRIER; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES ANALYSIS; FERMENTATION MEDIUM; FEVER; GENOTYPE; HEMOLYSIS; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOMITING;

ANIMALS; AUSTRIA; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CATTLE; CHILD; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FECES; FERMENTATION; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SHIGA TOXINS; SHIGELLA; SORBITOL; VIRULENCE;

EID: 33745558939     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268805005467     Document Type: Article

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