Emerging Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli serotypes in Europe: O100:H- and O127:H40

Current Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 428-429

  Orth, Dorothea ^a   Grif, Katharina ^a   Fisher, Ian ^b   Fruth, Angelika ^c   Tschäpe, Helmut ^c   Scheutz, Flemming ^d   Dierich, Manfred P ^a   Würzner, Reinhard ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d WHO REGIONAL OFFICE FOR EUROPE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SORBITOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; EAE GENE; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; EUROPE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FERMENTATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; STX1 GENE; STX2 GENE; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; SEROTYPING; SHIGA TOXIN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33750543952     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-006-0209-0     Document Type: Article

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