Detection of shiga toxin-producing escherichia coli O26, O45, O103, O111, O113, O121, O145, and O157 serogroups by multiplex polymerase chain reaction of the wzx gene of the O-antigen gene cluster

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 651-652

  Debroy, Chitrita ^a   Roberts, Elisabeth ^a   Valadez, Angela M ^a   Dudley, Edward G ^a   Cutter, Catherine N ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; O ANTIGEN; O ANTIGEN FLIPPASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; APPLE JUICE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; EPIDEMIC; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENE CLUSTER; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI;

DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; O ANTIGENS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 79955789881     PISSN: 15353141     EISSN: 15567125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2010.0769     Document Type: Article

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