Applicability of phylogenetic methods for characterizing the public health significance of verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli strains

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1671-1675

  Ziebell, Kim ^a   Konczy, Paulina ^a   Yong, Irene ^a   Frost, Shelley ^a   Mascarenhas, Mariola ^a   Kropinski, Andrew M ^a   Whittam, Thomas S ^b   Read, Susan C ^a   Karmali, Mohamed A ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; HEALTH RISKS; MICROBIOLOGY; TOXICITY;

PHYLOGENETIC CLASSIFICATION; PHYLOGENETIC METHODS; VEROCYTOTOXIN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

VEROTOXIN;

ANTIGEN; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DISEASE INCIDENCE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHIGA TOXIN 1; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRULENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 40549084957     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01619-07     Document Type: Article

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