Genetic diversity of heat-labile toxin expressed by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli strains isolated from humans

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2400-2410

  Lasaro, M A ^a,d   Rodrigues, J F ^a   Mathias Santos, C ^a   Guth, B E C ^b   Balan, A ^a   Sbrogio Almeida, M E ^c   Ferreira, L C S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPLICON; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BINDING AFFINITY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; ILEUM; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; NEIGHBOR JOINING METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REFERENCE VALUE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEROTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WILD TYPE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 41549095495     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00988-07     Document Type: Article

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