Clinical isolates of shiga toxin 1a-producing Shigella flexneri with an epidemiological link to recent travel to hispañiola

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1669-1677

  Gray, Miranda D ^a   Lampel, Keith A ^b   Strockbine, Nancy A ^c   Fernandez, Reinaldo E ^a   Melton Celsa, Angela R ^a   Maurelli, Anthony T ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

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

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KANAMYCIN; MITOMYCIN; SHIGA TOXIN; SHIGA TOXIN 1A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR; VEROTOXIN 1;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOLYSIS; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY ASSAY; ENTEROPATHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; LYSOGENIZATION; NEUTRALIZATION ASSAY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROPHAGE; RECA GENE; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLOSIS; VIRULENCE; ANIMAL; CHLOROCEBUS AETHIOPS; CLASSIFICATION; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; DRUG EFFECTS; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HAITI; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEROTYPE; SIPHOVIRIDAE; VERO CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HAITI; HUMANS; LYSOGENY; MITOMYCIN; MUTATION; PROPHAGES; SEROGROUP; SHIGA TOXIN 1; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SIPHOVIRIDAE; VERO CELLS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84907288847     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2010.140292     Document Type: Article

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