Effects of repeated subculturing and prolonged storage at room temperature of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 on pulsed-field gel electrophoresis profiles.

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  • Atsushi Iguchi
  • Ro Osawa
  • Junichi Kawano
  • Akira Shimizu
  • Jun Terajima
  • Haruo Watanabe
چکیده

Three clinical strains of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 which were subcultured repeatedly or stored at room temperature over a 25-week period showed appreciable variations in their pulsed-field gel electrophoresis fragment patterns. The variations could be explained by a couple of spontaneous genetic events at most and thus did not invalidate the genetic lineage of the strains.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of clinical microbiology

دوره 40 8  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2002