Identification of Escherichia coli O157:H7 genomic regions conserved in strains with a genotype associated with human infection

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 22-31

  Steele, Marina ^a   Ziebell, Kim ^a   Zhang, Yongxiang ^a   Benson, Andrew ^b   Konczy, Paulina ^a   Johnson, Roger ^a   Gannon, Victor ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA SEQUENCES; ECOLOGY; ENZYMES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; STRAIN;

BETA-GLUCURONIDASE; GENOMIC REGIONS; HYBRIDIZATION; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

HEMOLYSIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

CLADISTICS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DNA; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN; RELATEDNESS; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENOTYPE; INFECTION; IRON TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATOR GENE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SUBTRACTIVE HYBRIDIZATION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRULENCE;

BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33846134735     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00982-06     Document Type: Article

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