Potentially human-pathogenic Escherichia coli O26 in Norwegian sheep flocks

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 4949-4958

  Sekse, C ^a   Sunde, M ^a   Lindstedt, B A ^a   Hopp, P ^a   Bruheim, T ^a   Cudjoe, K S ^a   Kvitle, B ^a   Urdahl, A M ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

E. COLI; FECAL SAMPLES; GENETIC RELATIONSHIPS; HUMAN PATHOGENS; PFGE PROFILE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLING; SHIGA TOXIN-PRODUCING E. COLI; TANDEM REPEATS; VARIABLE NUMBER; VIRULENCE GENE;

ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES; SURVEYS; WOOL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; H ANTIGEN; O ANTIGEN; SHIGA TOXIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ELECTROKINESIS; FECES; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PATHOGENICITY; SAMPLING; SHEEP; TOXIN; VIRULENCE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FECES; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NORWAY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPING; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FECES; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NORWAY; O ANTIGENS; SEROTYPING; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SHIGA TOXIN; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

NORWAY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 79961087500     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00189-11     Document Type: Article

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