Seropathotypes, phylogroups, stx subtypes, and intimin types of wildlife-carried, shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli strains with the same characteristics as human-pathogenic isolates

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2578-2585

  Mora, Azucena ^a   López, Cecilia ^a   Dhabi, Ghizlane ^a   López Beceiro, Ana M ^a   Fidalgo, Luís E ^a   Díaz, Eduardo A ^b   Martínez Carrasco, Carlos ^b   Mamani, Rosalía ^a   Herrera, Alexandra ^a   Blanco, Jesús E ^a   Blanco, Miguel ^a   Blanco, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALICIA; GEOGRAPHIC AREAS; GERMANY; HUMAN DISEASE; HUMAN PATIENTS; HUMAN SETTLEMENTS; INTIMIN; POTENTIAL HEALTH; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ROE DEER; SEROTYPES; WILD BOARS;

AGRICULTURE; ELECTROPHORESIS; MAINTENANCE; MAMMALS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ADHESIN; EAEA PROTEIN, E COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; SHIGA TOXIN;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH RISK; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SAMPLING; TOXIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPING; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SPAIN; WILD ANIMAL;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR TYPING; SEROTYPING; SHIGA TOXINS; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; SPAIN;

EUROPE;

BOVINAE; CANIDAE; CAPREOLUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 84861134830     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.07520-11     Document Type: Article

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