Is Shiga toxin-negative Escherichia coli O157:H7 enteropathogenic or enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli? comprehensive molecular analysis using whole-genome sequencing

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 3530-3538

  Ferdous, Mithila ^a   Zhou, Kai ^a   Mellmann, Alexander ^b   Morabito, Stefano ^c   Croughs, Peter D ^d   De Boer, Richard F ^e   Kooistra Smid, Anna M D ^a,e   Rossen, John W A ^a   Friedrich, Alexander W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^d Star MDC   (Netherlands)

^e Department of Medical Microbiology   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAE GENE; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESPP GENE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; STX GENE; TCCP GENE; TYPE II SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIOPHAGE; DEFICIENCY; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FECES; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NETHERLANDS; PATHOGENICITY;

ADHESIN; BFPA PROTEIN, E COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; FIMBRIA PROTEIN; SHIGA TOXIN; SORBITOL; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIOPHAGES; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FECES; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; NETHERLANDS; SHIGA TOXIN; SORBITOL; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84945186977     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01899-15     Document Type: Article

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