Sorbitol-fermenting Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 in Austria

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 121, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 108-112

  Orth, Dorothea ^a   Grif, Katharina ^a   Zimmerhackl, Lothar Bernd ^a   Würzner, Reinhard ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

EHEC; HUS; Outbreak; PFGE; SF O157:H

Indexed keywords

SORBITOL; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AUSTRIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DIARRHEA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FERMENTATION; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVIEW; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANIMALS; AUSTRIA; CATTLE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTACT TRACING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; FEMALE; FERMENTATION; FOOD POISONING; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOTYPE; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SHIGA TOXIN; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; SORBITOL; VIRULENCE;

EID: 62449202909     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00508-008-1133-z     Document Type: Review

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