Taxonomy meets public health: The case of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli

Microbiology Spectrum

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Scheutz, Flemming ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

CLASSIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEROTYPING; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEROTYPING; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84929899677     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21650497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/microbiolspec.EHEC-0019-2013     Document Type: Article

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