Detection and characterization of Shiga toxin - Producing Escherichia coli from clinical cases and food in Uruguay;Detección y caracterización de Escherichia coli productor de toxina Shiga a partir de casos clínicos y de alimentos en Uruguay

Revista Argentina de Microbiologia

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 93-100

  Varela, G ^a   Chinen, I ^b   Gadea, P ^a   Miliwebsky, E ^b   Mota, M I ^a   Gonzalez S ^a   Gonzalez G ^a   Gugliada, M J ^b   Carbonari, C C ^b   Algorta, G ^a   Bernada M ^c   Sabelli, R ^c   Pardo, L ^a,c   Rivas, M ^b   Schelotto, F ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA   (Uruguay)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS   (Argentina)

^c Centro Hospitalario Pereira Rossell   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Bloody diarrhea; Food; HUS; STEC

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BEEF; BLOODY DIARRHEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FECES ANALYSIS; FOOD ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHENOTYPE; SEROTYPING; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; URUGUAY;

SHIGA TOXIN;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; SEROTYPING; SHIGA TOXIN; URUGUAY;

EID: 54449083216     PISSN: 03257541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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