Virulence, antimicrobial resistance properties and phylogenetic background of non-H7 enteropathogenic Escherichia coli O157

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue SEP, 2016, Pages

  Ferdous, Mithila ^a   Kooistra Smid, Anna M D ^a,b   Zhou, Kai ^a,c   Rossen, John W A ^a   Friedrich, Alexander W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC); Evolution; Mobile genetic elements; Phylogenetic relationship; Virulence; Whole genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPING;

EID: 84994045041     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01540     Document Type: Article

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