Verotoxins in bovine and meat verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli isolates: Type, number of variants, and relationship to cytotoxicity

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 73-79

  Krüger, Alejandra ^a   Lucchesi, Paula M A ^a   Parma, Alberto E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXIC EFFECTS; GENE VARIANTS; MEAT PRODUCTS; MITOMYCIN C; SEROTYPES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES;

CYTOTOXICITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; SHIGA TOXIN;

ANTIBIOTICS; CATTLE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; GENOME; MEAT; TOXIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; MEAT; PHENOTYPE; SHIGA TOXINS; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BOS; BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79251610299     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01445-10     Document Type: Article

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