Comparative genomic analysis of two novel sporadic shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O104:H4 strains isolated 2011 in Germany

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Tietze, Erhard ^a   Dabrowski, Piotr Wojciech ^b   Prager, Rita ^a   Radonic, Aleksandar ^b   Fruth, Angelika ^a   Aura, Philipp ^a   Nitsche, Andreas ^b   Mielke, Martin ^b   Flieger, Antje ^a  

^a Department of Infectious Diseases Division of Enteropathogenic Bacteria and Legionella National Reference Centre for Salmonella and Other Bacterial Enteric Pathogens   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR; BACTERIAL DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GERMANY; HEP 2 CELL LINE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI O104:H4; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VERO CELL LINE; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CHLOROCEBUS AETHIOPS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENETICS; HEP-G2 CELL LINE; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GERMANY; HEP G2 CELLS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROGROUP; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; VERO CELLS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84926660569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122074     Document Type: Article

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