Clinical significance of Escherichia albertii

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 488-492

  Ooka, Tadasuke ^a   Seto, Kazuko ^b   Kawano, Kimiko ^c   Kobayashi, Hideki ^d   Etoh, Yoshiki ^e   Ichihara, Sachiko ^e   Kaneko, Akiko ^f   Isobe, Junko ^g   Yamaguchi, Keiji ^h   Horikawa, Kazumi ^e   Gomes, Tânia A ⁱ   Linden, Annick ^j   Bardiau, Marjorie ^j   Mainil, Jacques G ^j   Beutin, Lothar ^k   Ogura, Yoshitoshi ^a   Hayashi, Tetsuya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^b OSAKA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^c Miyazaki Prefectural Institute   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^e FUKUOKA INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^f YAMAGATA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^g TOYAMA INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Japan)

^h HOKKAIDO INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

ⁱ FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^j UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^k FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SHIGA TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAE GENE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA ALBERTII; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BIRDS; CATS; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SHIGA TOXINS;

EID: 84857574592     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1803.111401     Document Type: Article

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