Two distinct groups of porcine enteropathogenic Escherichia coli strains of serogroup O45 are revealed by comparative genomic hybridization and virulence gene microarray

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages 402-

  Bruant, Guillaume ^a   Zhang, Yongxiang ^b   Garneau, Philippe ^a   Wong, Justin ^b   Laing, Chad ^b   Fairbrother, John M ^a   Gannon, Victor P J ^b   Harel, Josée ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWINE;

ANIMALS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PAA; SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 70349694353     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-402     Document Type: Article

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