Identification of the long polar fimbriae gene variants in the locus of enterocyte effacement-negative Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli strains isolated from humans and cattle in Argentina

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 308, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 123-129

  Galli, Lucía ^a,b   Torres, Alfredo G ^c   Rivas, Marta ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Cattle strain; Human strain; LEE negative; Lpf variant; Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli; Virulence profile

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; LEE PROTEIN, E COLI; PHOSPHOPROTEIN;

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FIMBRIA; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTESTINE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; ANIMAL; BOVINAE; CATTLE DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; DEFICIENCY; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; SEROTYPING; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; SEROTYPING; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BOS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77953533224     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.01996.x     Document Type: Article

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