Characterization of a verocytotoxin-producing enteroaggregative Escherichia coli serogroup O111:H21 strain associated with a household outbreak in Northern Ireland

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4116-4119

  Dallman, Tim ^a   Smith, Geoffrey P ^b   O'Brien, Brendan ^c   Chattaway, Marie A ^a   Finlay, David ^d   Grant, Kathie A ^a   Jenkins, Claire ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b ILLUMINA INC   (United States)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^d AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIMBRIA PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGGR GENE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTEROAGGREGATIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FIMBRIA; FOOD POISONING; GENE SEQUENCE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UNITED KINGDOM; VTX2 GENE; VTX2C GENE;

ANIMALS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLIPHAGES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NORTHERN IRELAND; PLASMIDS; PROPHAGES; SEROTYPING; SHIGA TOXIN 2; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84869223690     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02047-12     Document Type: Article

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