The role of rpoS in Escherichia coli O157 manure-amended soil survival and distribution of allelic variations among bovine, food and clinical isolates

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 338, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 18-23

  van Hoek, Angela H A M ^a   Aarts, Henk J M ^a   Bouw, El ^a   van Overbeek, Wendy M ^a   Franz, Eelco ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Environmental fitness; Eschrichia coli O157; Metabolism; Stress

Indexed keywords

SIGMA FACTOR RPOS;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FOOD; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MANURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RPOS GENE; SOIL AMENDMENT; STOMACH JUICE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATTLE; CHEESE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MANURE; MUTATION; SIGMA FACTOR; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84870924895     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12024     Document Type: Article

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