Shiga toxin-encoding genes (stx genes) in human faecal samples

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Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 202-210

  Urdahl, Anne Margrete ^a   Solheim, Heidi Tetlie ^a   Vold, Line ^b   Hasseltvedt, Viggo ^c   Wasteson, Yngvild ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^c Sykehuset Innlandet Trust   (Norway)

Author keywords

E. coli; Human reservoir; Molecular epidemiology; Stx genes

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FILTER HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; INFANT; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROTYPING; SHIGA TOXIN ENCODING GENE; VERO CELL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FECES; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; SEROTYPING; SHIGA TOXIN; VERO CELLS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874191616     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: 16000463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0463.2012.02957.x     Document Type: Article

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