PO157-Sal, a novel conjugative plasmid detected in outbreak isolates of Escherichia coli O157:H7

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1594-1597

  Wang, Ping ^a   Xiong, Yanwen ^a   Lan, Ruiting ^b   Ye, Changyun ^a   Wang, Hua ^c   Ren, Jun ^d   Jing, Huaiqi ^a   Wang, Yiting ^a   Zhou, Zhemin ^e   Cui, Zhigang ^a   Zhao, Hongqing ^a   Chen, Yuli ^a   Jin, Dong ^a   Bai, Xuemei ^a   Zhao, Ailan ^a   Wang, Yan ^a   Zhang, Shaomin ^a   Sun, Hui ^a   Li, Juan ^a   Wang, Tao ^f   Wang, Lei ^e   Xu, Jianguo ^a   more..

^a National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c JIANGSU PROVINCIAL CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^d Anhui Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^e NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f GUIZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHINESE; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RHIZOBIUM; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHINA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; PLASMIDS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 79953847193     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02530-10     Document Type: Article

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