Phylogeny and phenotypes of clinical and environmental Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coliO174

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 963-976

  Zhang, Wenlan ^a   Nadirk, Julia ^a   Kossow, Annelene ^a   Bielaszewska, Martina ^a   Leopold, Shana R ^a   Witten, Anika ^a   Fruth, Angelika ^b   Karch, Helge ^a   Ammon, Andrea ^a,c   Mellmann, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; SHIGA TOXIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CATTLE; CELL LINE; CHLOROCEBUS AETHIOPS; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTESTINE MUCOSA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; VERO CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; CATTLE; CELL LINE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SHIGA TOXIN; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; VERO CELLS;

EID: 84898057491     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12234     Document Type: Article

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