Subtyping of Escherichia coli O157:H7 strains isolated from human infections and healthy cattle in Argentina

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 457-464

  D'Astek, Beatriz A ^a   Del Castillo, Lourdes L ^b   Miliwebsky, Elizabeth ^a   Carbonari, Claudia ^a   Palladino, Pablo M ^b   Deza, Natalia ^a   Chinen, Isabel ^a   Manfredi, Eduardo ^a   Leotta, Gerardo A ^a,c   Masana, Marcelo O ^b   Rivas, Marta ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESERVOIR; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ABATTOIRS; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; CARRIER STATE; CATTLE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHIGA TOXIN 2;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84860600493     PISSN: 15353141     EISSN: 15567125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2011.1062     Document Type: Article

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