Prevalence of hemolysin genes and comparison of ehxA subtype patterns in Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and Non-STEC strains from clinical, food, and animal sources

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 6301-6311

  Lorenz, Sandra C ^a,b   Son, Insook ^a   Maounounen Laasri, Anna ^a   Lin, Andrew ^a   Fischer, Markus ^b   Kase, Julie A ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ISOLATES; FOOD ISOLATES; FOOD SOURCES; PHENOTYPIC EXPRESSION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; SHIGA TOXIN-PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SUBTYPINGS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION;

FOOD MICROBIOLOGY;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DISEASE PREVALENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; PATHOGEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOXIN; VIRULENCE;

HEMOLYSIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FOOD CONTROL; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PREVALENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TYPING; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREVALENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84885054291     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02200-13     Document Type: Article

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