Serological cross-reactivity of environmental isolates of Enterobacter, Escherichia, Stenotrophomonas, and Aerococcus with Shigella spp.-specific antisera

Current Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 63-67

  Rahman, Mohammed Ziaur ^a,b   Sultana, Munawar ^a   Khan, Sirajul Islam ^a   Birkeland, Nils Kåre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; ANTISERUM; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; FRESH WATER; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN;

AEROCOCCUS; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BANGLADESH; CROSS REACTION; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; SEROTYPE; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA BOYDII; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; STENOTROPHOMONAS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BANGLADESH; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CROSS REACTIONS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENTEROBACTER; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMMUNE SERA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SHIGELLA; STENOTROPHOMONAS; STREPTOCOCCACEAE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

AEROCOCCUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER SP.; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA BOYDII; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; STENOTROPHOMONAS;

EID: 33845746796     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-006-0387-9     Document Type: Article

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