Variation in virulence among clades of Escherichia coli O157:H7 associated with disease outbreaks

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4868-4873

  Manning, Shannon D ^a   Motiwala, Alifiya S ^b   Springman, A Cody ^a   Qi, Weihong ^a   Lacher, David W ^a   Ouellette, Lindsey M ^a   Mladonicky, Janice M ^a   Somsel, Patricia ^c   Rudrik, James T ^c   Dietrich, Stephen E ^c   Zhang, Wei ^d   Swaminathan, Bala ^e   Alland, David ^a   Whittam, Thomas S ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH   (United States)

^d ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Pathogens; Polymorphisms; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

VEROTOXIN 1; VEROTOXIN 2; SHIGA TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VIRULENCE; ALGORITHM; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; RISK; SPINACH; TIME; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SPINACIA OLERACEA;

ALGORITHMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHIGA TOXIN; SPINACIA OLERACEA; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIRULENCE;

EID: 42449105377     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0710834105     Document Type: Article

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