Production of shiga toxin by a luxS mutant of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in vivo and in vitro

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 391-396

  Jeon, Byeonghwa ^a   Itoh, Kikuji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli O157:H7; Germfree mice; Quorum sensing; Shiga toxin

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; S RIBOSYLHOMOCYSTEINASE; SHIGA TOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; LURIA; MUS;

EID: 34247370209     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: 13480421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2007.tb03926.x     Document Type: Article

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