Public health microbiology of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli

Microbiology Spectrum

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Caprioli, Alfredo ^a   Scavia, Gaia ^a   Morabito, Stefano ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BOVINE; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMPLICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; EUROPE; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GASTROENTERITIS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEROTYPE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; EUROPE; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOTYPE; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; SEROGROUP; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84946825197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21650497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/microbiolspec.ehec-0014-2013     Document Type: Article

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