Bloody coli: A gene cocktail in Escherichia coli O104:H4

mBio

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Baquero, Fernando ^a   Tobes, Raquel ^b  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^b Research Group   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BLOODY DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874641359     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00066-13     Document Type: Note

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