Genetic characterization of non-O157 verocytotoxigenic escherichia coli isolated from raw beef products using multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1019-1023

  Franci, Tomás ^a   Sanso, A Mariel ^a,b   Bustamante, Ana V ^a,b   Lucchesi, Paula M A ^a,b   Parma, Alberto E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BEEF; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAW MEAT; SEROTYPE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; VEROCYTOTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ALLELES; ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; CATTLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENOTYPE; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; MEAT; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; SEROTYPING; SHIGA TOXINS; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 80053267567     PISSN: 15353141     EISSN: 15567125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2010.0814     Document Type: Article

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