Ancestral lineages of human enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2916-2924

  Steinsland, Hans ^a,b   Lacher, David W ^b,c   Sommerfelt, Halvor ^a,d   Whittam, Thomas S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; BACTERIAL DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTIONARY LINEAGE; HUMAN; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SWINE; ADULT; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHEMISTRY; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VETERINARY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWINE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 77955434397     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02432-09     Document Type: Article

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