Molecular analysis of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli strains isolated from hemolytic-uremic syndrome patients and dairy samples in France

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2118-2128

  Pradel, Nathalie ^a   Bertin, Yolande ^b   Martin, Christine ^b   Livrelli, Valérie ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^b Inst Natl de la Rech Agronomique   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAIRY PRODUCTS; DISEASES; ELECTROPHORESIS; PATIENT TREATMENT;

MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PLASMID PROFILING; SEVERE DISEASES; SPORADIC CASES; UREMIC SYNDROME;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ADHESIN; HEMOLYSIN; INTIMIN; KATG PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE;

BLOOD; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DIARRHEAL DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE EXPRESSION; MILK; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOXIN; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DAIRY PRODUCT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FRANCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOTYPING; SEROTYPE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIRULENCE;

DAIRY PRODUCTS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FRANCE; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RIBOTYPING; SHIGA TOXINS; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIRULENCE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 42049088909     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02688-07     Document Type: Article

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