Genotypic characterization of Escherichia coli O157:H7 isolates from different sources in the north-west province, South Africa, using enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus PCR analysis

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 9735-9747

  Ateba, Collins Njie ^a   Mbewe, Moses ^b  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bacterial source tracking (BST); E Coli O157:H7; Enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC) sequences; Genetic fingerprints; Unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; SHIGA TOXIN; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATTLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ENTEROBACTERIAL REPETITIVE INTERGENIC CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; FINGER DERMATOGLYPHICS; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MEAT; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTH AFRICA; SWINE; ANIMAL; BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; HUMANS; MEAT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTH AFRICA; SWINE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84901760290     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms15069735     Document Type: Article

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