Identification and epidemiological description of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 strains producing low amounts of Shiga toxin 2 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 442-445

  Matsumoto, Masakado ^a   Suzuki, Masahiro ^a   Takahashi, Masao ^a   Hirose, Kaoru ^b   Minagawa, Hiroko ^a   Ohta, Michio ^b  

^a AICHI PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VEROTOXIN 2; Q PROTEIN, BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; IN VITRO STUDY; JAPAN; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; VIRULENCE;

CARRIER STATE; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; HUMANS; JAPAN; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SHIGA TOXIN 2; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 58149380792     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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