Set of virulence genes and genetic relatedness of O113 : H21 Escherichia coli strains isolated from the animal reservoir and human infections in Brazil

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 634-640

  Dos Santos, Luis Fernando ^a   Irino, Kinue ^b   Vaz, Tânia Mara Ibelli ^b   Guth, Beatriz Ernestina Cabilio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHIGA TOXIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BRAZIL; CATTLE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CARRIER; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; INFECTION; NONHUMAN; O113 H21; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SEROTYPE; VIRULENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPING; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BRAZIL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; PLASMIDS; SEROTYPING; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 77952991193     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.015263-0     Document Type: Article

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