Intimin types determined by heteroduplex mobility assay of intimin gene (eae)-positive Escherichia coli strains

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1038-1041

  Ito, Kenitiro ^a   Iida, Mariko ^a   Yamazaki, Mitsugu ^b   Moriya, Kazuo ^c   Moroishi, Sanae ^c   Yatsuyanagi, Jun ^d   Kurazono, Takayuki ^e   Hiruta, Noriaki ^f   Ratchtrachenchai, Orn Anong ^g  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b AICHI PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^c Saga Prefectural Institute of Public Health   (Japan)

^d AKITA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e SAITAMA INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^f Yokosuka City Institute of Public Health   (Japan)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTIMIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; EAE GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETERODUPLEX ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HETERODUPLEX ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33947278545     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01103-06     Document Type: Article

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