Phylogenetically related Argentinean and Australian Escherichia coli O157 isolates are distinguished by virulence clades and alternative shiga toxin 1 and 2 prophages

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 4724-4731

  Mellor, Glen E ^a   Sim, Eby M ^a   Barlow, Robert S ^a   D'Astek, Beatriz A ^b   Galli, Lucia ^b   Chinen, Isabel ^b   Rivas, Marta ^b   Gobius, Kari S ^a  

^a Archerfield BC QLD   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; AUSTRALIA; DATA SUPPORT; E. COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; PROPHAGES; SHIGA TOXIN; TOXIGENIC;

BIOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCES; GENES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL DNA; VEROTOXIN 1; VEROTOXIN 2; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ALLELE; BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CLADISTICS; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; GENOME; GENOTYPE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PATHOGEN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM; RELATEDNESS; TOXIN; VIRULENCE;

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHEMISTRY; COLIPHAGE; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PROPHAGE; VIROLOGY; VIRULENCE;

ARGENTINA; AUSTRALIA; COLIPHAGES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROPHAGES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHIGA TOXIN 1; SHIGA TOXIN 2; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ARGENTINA; AUSTRALIA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84864085490     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00365-12     Document Type: Article

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