Verocytotoxigenic (Shiga toxin-producing) Escherichia coli: Virulence factors and pathogenicity in the farm to fork paradigm

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 357-365

  Bolton, Declan J ^a  

^a TEAGASC FOOD RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VEROTOXIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHROMOSOME; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEALTH HAZARD; INTESTINE MUCOSA; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEROTYPE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; COLITIS; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; PLASMIDS; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79952422372     PISSN: 15353141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2010.0699     Document Type: Review

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