Characteristics of the enteroaggregative Shiga toxin/verotoxin-producing escherichia coli o104:H4 strain causing the outbreak of haemolytic uraemic syndrome in Germany, may to june 2011

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 16, Issue 24, 2011, Pages

  Scheutz, F ^a,b   Nielsen, E Møller ^b   Frimodt Moller J ^a,c   Boisen, N ^a,b   Morabito, S ^d   Tozzoli, R ^d   Nataro, J P ^e   Caprioli, A ^d  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^c HILLERØD HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; STX2A PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCREENING TEST; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; STX2A GENE;

EID: 79959679433     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/ese.16.24.19889-en     Document Type: Article

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