Characterization of farm, food, and clinical shiga toxin-producing escherichia coli (STEC) O113

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1088-1096

  Monaghan, Aine M ^a   Byrne, Brian ^a   McDowell, David ^b   Carroll, Anne M ^c   McNamara, Eleanor B ^c   Bolton, Declan J ^a  

^a TEAGASC FOOD RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c Cherry Orchard Hospital Dublin   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CATALASE PEROXIDASE; ENTEROHEMOLYSIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI SECRETED PROTEIN A; ESPB PROTEIN; ETPD PROTEIN; EXTRACELLULAR SERINE PROTEINASE; HEMOLYSIN; INTIMIN; LPFA PROTEIN; PEROXIDASE; RECEPTOR; SAA PROTEIN; SAB PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; SHIGA TOXIN; SHIGA TOXIN 1C; SHIGA TOXIN 1D; SHIGA TOXIN 2C; SHIGA TOXIN 2DACT; SHIGA TOXIN 2F; SHIGA TOXIN 2G; TOXB PROTEIN; TRANSLOCATED INTIMIN RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEROTOXIN 2; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD; GENOTYPE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CATTLE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FECES; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; IRELAND; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEW ZEALAND; NORWAY; SEROTYPING; SHIGA TOXIN; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84871262992     PISSN: 15353141     EISSN: 15567125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2012.1257     Document Type: Article

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