Evolution of the stx2-encoding prophage in persistent bovine escherichia coli O157: H7 strains

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1563-1572

  Park, Dongjin ^a   Stanton, Eliot ^a   Ciezki, Kristin ^e   Parrell, Daniel ^a   Bozile, Matthew ^a   Pike, Daniel ^a   Forst, Steven A ^e   Jeong, Kwang Cheol ^d   Ivanek, Renata ^c   Döpfer, Dörte ^b   Kaspar, Charles W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOVINE ISOLATES; DAIRY FARMS; E.COLI O157:H7; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157:H7; FARM ENVIRONMENTS; GENE DELETION; GENETIC BASIS; HUMAN PATHOGENS; INSERTIONAL INACTIVATION; PROPHAGES; SHIGA TOXIN; WISCONSIN;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ENCODING; TRANSCRIPTION;

MAMMALS;

VEROTOXIN 2;

DAIRY FARMING; DATA PROCESSING; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NICHE; PATHOGEN; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYMORPHISM; RNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATTLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROPHAGE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CARRIER STATE; CATTLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROPHAGES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SHIGA TOXIN 2; WISCONSIN;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84874745467     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03158-12     Document Type: Article

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