Distribution of putative adhesins in different seropathotypes of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 4937-4946

  Toma, Claudia ^a   Espinosa, Estela Martínez ^c   Song, Tianyan ^a   Miliwebsky, Elizabeth ^c   Chinen, Isabel ^c   Iyoda, Sunao ^b   Iwanaga, Masaaki ^a   Rivas, Marta ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BACTERIAL DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI VACCINE; PLASMID DNA; SHIGA TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFA1 GENE; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; IHA GENE; LPFA GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAA GENE; SEROTYPE; TOXB GENE;

ADHESINS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; ANIMALS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; SHIGA TOXINS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 8644246661     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.11.4937-4946.2004     Document Type: Article

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