Rapid determination of Escherichia coli O157:H7 lineage types and molecular subtypes by using comparative genomic fingerprinting

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 6606-6615

  Laing, Chad ^a   Pegg, Crystal ^a   Yawney, Davis ^a   Ziebell, Kim ^a   Steele, Marina ^a   Johnson, Roger ^a   Thomas, James E ^b   Taboada, Eduardo N ^a   Zhang, Yongxiang ^a   Gannon, Victor P J ^a,c  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^c CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; ELECTROPHORESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GELATION; PHOTOTRANSISTORS; PLATINUM COMPOUNDS; WATER POLLUTION;

COMPARATIVE GENOMICS; DENDROGRAM; DISCRIMINATORY POWERS; E. COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157:H7; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENOMIC FINGERPRINTING; GREAT-ER; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING; PHAGE TYPES; RAPID DETERMINATIONS; STRAIN CHARACTERIZATIONS;

STRAIN;

GENOMIC DNA;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DETECTION METHOD; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELECTROKINESIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEL; GENOME; SUBPOPULATION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CATTLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

BOS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 55049132523     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00985-08     Document Type: Article

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