Little heterogeneity among genes encoding heat-labile and heat-stable toxins of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli strains isolated from diarrheal pigs

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 6402-6405

  Zhang, Chengxian ^a   Rausch, Dana ^a   Zhang, Weiping ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES ENCODING; HEAT-LABILE ENTEROTOXIN; TOXIN GENES;

GENES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ENTEROTOXIN;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DIARRHEAL DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTATION; PIG; TOXICITY; TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; NONHUMAN; SWINE; THERMOSTABILITY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 70349432281     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00952-09     Document Type: Article

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