Lineage and host source are both correlated with levels of shiga toxin 2 production by escherichia coli O157:H7 strains

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 474-482

  Zhang, Yongxiang ^a   Laing, Chad ^a   Zhang, Zhengzhong ^a   Hallewell, Jennyka ^a   You, Chunping ^a   Ziebell, Kim ^a   Johnson, Roger P ^a   Kropinski, Andrew M ^a   Thomas, James E ^b   Karmali, Mohamed ^a   Gannon, Victor P J ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DISEASE; DNA SEQUENCING; E. COLI; E.COLI O157:H7; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157:H7; FLANKING REGIONS; GENETIC ELEMENTS; HOST SOURCE; PROPHAGES; SHIGA TOXIN; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATORS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

DNA; TOXIC MATERIALS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

VEROTOXIN 2;

BACTERIUM; CATTLE; DNA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOASSAY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATTLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; VIRULENCE; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SHIGA TOXIN 2; VIRULENCE; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

BOS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 75249090822     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01288-09     Document Type: Article

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