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Characterisation of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 strains isolated from humans in Argentina, Australia and New Zealand

BACKGROUND: Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) is an important cause of bloody diarrhoea (BD), non-bloody diarrhoea (NBD) and the haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS). In Argentina and New Zealand, the most prevalent STEC serotype is O157:H7, which is responsible for the majority of HUS case...

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Autores principales: Leotta, Gerardo A, Miliwebsky, Elizabeth S, Chinen, Isabel, Espinosa, Estela M, Azzopardi, Kristy, Tennant, Sharon M, Robins-Browne, Roy M, Rivas, Marta
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2277424/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18366637
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-8-46