Greater diversity of shiga toxin-encoding bacteriophage insertion sites among Escherichia coli O157:H7 isolates from cattle than in those from humans

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 671-679

  Besser, Thomas E ^a   Shaikh, Nurmohammad ^b   Holt, Nicholas J ^b   Tarr, Phillip I ^b   Konkel, Michael E ^a   Malik Kale, Preeti ^a   Walsh, Coilin W ^c   Whittam, Thomas S ^c   Bono, James L ^d  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d U S MEAT ANIMAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGES; BIODIVERSITY; CHROMOSOMES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; TOXIC MATERIALS;

ALLELE; CATTLE; GENOTYPES; SHIGA TOXIN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; SHIGA TOXIN;

BACTERIOPHAGE; CATTLE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; GENOTYPE; HOST; ISOLATED POPULATION; TOXIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BINDING SITE; CATTLE DISEASE; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENE; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; TIR GENE; ZOONOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BACTERIOPHAGES; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CHILD; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENOTYPE; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; SHIGA TOXINS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BOS; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33846935699     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01035-06     Document Type: Article

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