Non-O157 shiga toxin-producing escherichia coli Is the most prevalent diarrheagenic E. coli pathotype in street-vended taco dressings in Mexico city

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 450-451

  Lopez Saucedo, Catalina ^a   Cerna, Jorga F ^b   Estrada Garcia, Teresa ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MEXICO; PATHOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MEXICO; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 75749120199     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/649888     Document Type: Letter

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