Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli in Yaks (Bos grunniens) from the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Bai, Xiangning ^a   Zhao, Ailan ^a   Lan, Ruiting ^b   Xin, Youquan ^c   Xie, Hui ^c   Meng, Qiong ^a   Jin, Dong ^a   Yu, Bo ^a   Sun, Hui ^a   Lu, Shan ^a   Xu, Jianguo ^a   Xiong, Yanwen ^a  

^a National Institute for Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c Animal Disease Control and Prevention Center in Qinghai Province   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VEROTOXIN 1; VEROTOXIN 2; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; ASTA GENE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHINA; CNF1 GENE; CNF2 GENE; EAEA GENE; EFA1 GENE; ESPP GENE; EXHA GENE; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOST RANGE; IHA GENE; IPFA GENE; KATP GENE; NONHUMAN; PAA GENE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAA GENE; SEROTYPING; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; STX1 GENE; STX1A GENE; STX2 GENE; STX2A GENE; STX2B GENE; STX2C GENE; STX2D GENE; STX2G GENE; SUBA GENE; TOXB GENE; YAK; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHINA; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FECES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPING; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANIMALIA; ASTA; BOS GRUNNIENS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PAA;

EID: 84878899192     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065537     Document Type: Article

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