Presence of virulence and fitness gene modules of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli in atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli O26

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 891-897

  Bielaszewska, Martina ^a   Sonntag, Anne Katharina ^a   Schmidt, M Alexander ^a   Karch, Helge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli O26; Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O26; Hemolytic uremic syndrome; High pathogenicity island; Locus for enterocyte effacement; Mosaic island; O island O122

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; EFAL GENE; ENT GENE; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; NLEB GENE; NLEE GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRULENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 34250012543     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2007.03.010     Document Type: Article

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