Pathogenic Escherichia coli found in sewage treatment plants and environmental waters

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 5536-5541

  Anastasi, E M ^a   Matthews, B ^b   Stratton, H M ^b   Katouli, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL SPECIES; E. COLI; ENVIRONMENTAL ISOLATES; ENVIRONMENTAL STRAIN; ENVIRONMENTAL WATER; FINAL EFFLUENTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; NON-POINT SOURCE; PATHOGENIC E. COLI; PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; PHYLOGENETIC GROUPS; RECEIVING WATERS; TREATMENT PLANTS; UROPATHOGENIC; VIRULENCE GENE;

EFFLUENTS; GENES; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIRD; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENETICS; SEWAGE; VIRULENCE; WASTE TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SEWAGE; WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SEWAGE; VIRULENCE FACTORS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER PURIFICATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84866183051     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00657-12     Document Type: Article

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