Specific properties of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli isolates from diarrheal patients and comparison to strains from foods and fecal specimens from cattle, swine, and healthy carriers in osaka city, japan

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1232-1240

  Wang, Lili ^a   Wakushima, Mitsuko ^a   Aota, Tetsu ^a   Yoshida, Yuka ^a   Kita, Toshimasa ^b   Maehara, Tomofumi ^c   Ogasawara, Jun ^d   Choi, Changsun ^e   Kamata, Yoichi ^f   Hara Kudo, Yukiko ^f   Nishikawa, Yoshikazu ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b Osaka Municipal Meat Inspection Center   (Japan)

^c Food Sanitation Inspection Laboratory of Osaka Municipal Central Wholesale Market   (Japan)

^d OSAKA CITY INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^e Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMESTIC ANIMALS; ENTEROPATHOGENIC E. COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECAL SAMPLES; HEALTHY HUMANS; HEALTHY PEOPLE; INTIMIN; REAL-TIME PCR; SPECIFIC PROPERTIES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

FOOD MICROBIOLOGY;

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

CATTLE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; COLONY; DIARRHEAL DISEASE; ETIOLOGY; FECAL PELLET; HYBRIDIZATION; PATHOGEN; PIG; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME; VIRULENCE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FECES; FOOD CONTROL; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHYLOGENY; SWINE;

ANIMALS; CARRIER STATE; CATTLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHYLOGENY; SWINE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KINKI; OSAKA [KINKI];

EID: 84874730194     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03380-12     Document Type: Article

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