Conserved Stx2 phages from Escherichia coli O103:H25 isolated from patients suffering from hemolytic uremic syndrome

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 801-810

  Sekse, Camilla ^a   Muniesa, Maite ^b   Wasteson, Yngvild ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; MITOMYCIN C;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DIARRHEA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O103 H25; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; MEAT; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEROTYPE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; COLIPHAGES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; MEAT PRODUCTS; NORWAY; SHIGA TOXIN 2; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; SWINE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 57749104827     PISSN: 15353141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2008.0130     Document Type: Article

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