OI-57, a genomic island of Escherichia coli O157, is present in other seropathotypes of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli associated with severe human disease

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4697-4704

  Imamovic, Lejla ^a,b   Tozzoli, Rosangela ^a   Michelacci, Valeria ^a   Minelli, Fabio ^a   Marziano, Maria Luisa ^a   Caprioli, Alfredo ^a   Morabito, Stefano ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL LINEAGE; CLONE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME; GENOMIC ISLAND; HYBRIDIZATION; INTESTINE MUCOSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIRULENCE;

EID: 78049448774     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00512-10     Document Type: Article

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