Persistence of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and its mutants in soils

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Ma, Jincai ^a,b   Ibekwe, A Mark ^a   Yi, Xuan ^c   Wang, Haizhen ^a,b,d   Yamazaki, Akihiro ^c   Crowley, David E ^b   Yang, Ching Hong ^c  

^a U S SALINITY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; INTIMIN; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; VEROTOXIN 1; VEROTOXIN 2;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CLAY; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DELETION MUTANT; EAE GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SANDY LOAM; SOIL ANALYSIS; STX1 GENE; STX2 GENE; WILD TYPE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MUTATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MUTATION; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 79961060233     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023191     Document Type: Article

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