Escherichia coli O104:H4 from 2011 European outbreak and strain from south Korea

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1755-1756

  Kim, Junyoung ^a   Oh, Kyunghwan ^a   Jeon, Semi ^a   Cho, Seonghak ^a   Lee, Deogyong ^a   Hong, Sahyun ^a   Cho, Seongbeom ^a   Park, Misun ^a   Jeon, Dooyoung ^b   Kim, Seonghan ^a  

^a Korea National Institute of Health   (South Korea)

^b Jeollanam do Institute of Health and Environment   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; NALIDIXIC ACID; SULTAMICILLIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; EUROPE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI O104:H4; SOUTH KOREA; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; STX 1 GENE; STX 2 GENE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EUROPE; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; SHIGA TOXIN 1; SHIGA TOXIN 2; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 80052181592     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1709.110879     Document Type: Letter

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