Watch out for the even eviler cousin - Sorbitol-fermenting e coli O157

The Lancet

Volumn 377, Issue 9762, 2011, Pages 298-299

  Werber, Dirk ^a   Bielaszewska, Martina ^b   Frank, Christina ^a   Stark, Klaus ^a   Karch, Helge ^b  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SORBITOL;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; LETTER; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SFP GENE; SORBITOL FERMENTING ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 78751670684     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60090-1     Document Type: Letter

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