The different ecological niches of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 741-751

  Gonzales Siles, Lucia ^a   Sjöling, Åsa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

DIARRHEA; ECOSYSTEM; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION (PROCESS); VIRULENCE;

DIARRHEA; ECOSYSTEM; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84961221368     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13106     Document Type: Short Survey

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