Genetic diversity among clonal lineages within Escherichia coli O157:H7 stepwise evolutionary model

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1701-1706

  Feng, Peter C H ^a   Monday, Steven R ^a   Lacher, David W ^b   Allison, Lesley ^c   Siitonen, Anja ^d   Keys, Christine ^a   Eklund, Marjut ^d   Nagano, Hideki ^e   Karch, Helge ^f   Keen, James ^g   Whittam, Thomas S ^b  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e HOKKAIDO INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^g U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; SORBITOL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FERMENTATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

EID: 36248988119     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1311.070381     Document Type: Article

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