Clonal relations of atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli O157:H16 strains isolated from various sources from several countries

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 337, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 126-131

  Feng, Peter C H ^a   Keys, Christine ^a   Lacher, David W ^a   Beutin, Lothar ^b   Bentancor, Adriana ^c   Heuvelink, Annet ^d   Afset, Jan E ^e,f   Rumi, Valeria ^c   Monday, Steven ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^d GD ANIMAL HEALTH   (Netherlands)

^e TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^f NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli; Clonality; Escherichia coli; O157:H16

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157 H16; FRANCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TYPE STRAIN; UNITED STATES;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; AMERICAS; ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EUROPE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MEAT; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; VIRULENCE FACTORS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84870309126     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12017     Document Type: Article

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