A food poisoning diarrhea outbreak caused by enteroaggregative Escherichia coli serogroup O126:H27 in Shizuoka, Japan

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 154-155

  Harada, Tetsuya ^a   Hiroi, Midori ^a   Kawamori, Fumihiko ^a   Furusawa, Aki ^a   Ohata, Katsuhiko ^a   Sugiyama, Kanji ^a   Masuda, Takashi ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HYGIENE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROAGGREGATIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; FOOD POISONING; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; JAPAN; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SALMONELLA;

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FOOD POISONING; HUMANS; JAPAN; SEROTYPING;

EID: 34347326998     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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