Detection of the emerging Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O26: H11/H- sequence type 29 (ST29) clone in human patients and healthy cattle in Switzerland

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 5411-5413

  Zweifel, Claudio ^a   Cernela, Nicole ^a   Stephan, Roger ^a  

^a VETSUISSE FACULTY UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PROFILES; HUMAN PATIENTS; SHIGA TOXIN-PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SWITZERLAND;

DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES;

CLONING;

CATTLE; CLONE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PATHOGEN; PLASMID;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84884234915     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01728-13     Document Type: Article

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