Screening of an E. Coli O157: H7 bacterial artificial chromosome library by comparative genomic hybridization to identify genomic regions contributing to growth in bovine gastrointestinal mucus and epithelial cell colonization

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue AUG, 2011, Pages

  Bail, Jianing ^a,b   McAteer, Sean P ^a   Paxton, Edith ^a   Mahajan, Arvind ^a   Gally, David L ^a   Tree, Jai J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b HEBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bacterial artificial chromosome; Comparative genomic hybridization; Ehec; Locus of enterocyte effacement; Mucus; Sugarutilization

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS; BOVIDAE; BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84875520322     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00168     Document Type: Article

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