A new pathogenicity island carrying an allelic variant of the Subtilase cytotoxin is common among Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli of human and ovine origin

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Michelacci, V ^a,b   Tozzoli, R ^a   Caprioli, A ^a   Martinez R ^c   Scheutz, F ^d   Grande, L ^a   Sanchez S ^e   Morabito, S ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^d STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^e INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Diarrhoea; Pathogenicity island; PCR; Small ruminants; STEC; Subtilase cytotoxin

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXIN; SUBTILASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PATHOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84874336723     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12122     Document Type: Article

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