Variability in tellurite resistance and the ter gene cluster among Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli isolated from humans, animals and food

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 105-111

  Orth, Dorothea ^a   Grif, Katharina ^a   Dierich, Manfred P ^a   Würzner, Reinhard ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli; Tellurite resistance; ter genes

Indexed keywords

SORBITOL; TELLURITE; TELLURIUM DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; EAE GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENE CLUSTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; TER GENE; TERC GENE; TERE GENE; TERF GENE;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CEFIXIME; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GOATS; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; MEAT; MILK; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SHIGA TOXIN; TELLURIUM;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33847386388     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: 17697123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2006.10.007     Document Type: Article

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