Article
Molecular characterisation of verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli of serogroup O111 from different countries.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Oct 1999
Morabito S, Karch H, Schmidt H, Minelli F, Mariani-Kurkdjian Patrizia, Allerberger F, Bettelheim K A, Caprioli A
Abstract excerpt
A collection of epidemiologically unrelated verocytotoxin (VT)-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) strains of serogroup O111 isolated from human patients and cattle with diarrhoeal disease in five different countries were characterised by determination of their VT genotypes, the presence of other virulence factors such as the intimin-coding eae gene and the enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) plasmid, and their...
Topics
- Adhesins, Bacterial
- Animals
- Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
- Bacterial Toxins
- Carrier Proteins
- Cattle
- DNA Fingerprinting
- DNA, Bacterial
- Electrophoresis, Agar Gel
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field