Identification of verotoxin type 2 variant B subunit genes in Escherichia coli by the polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis.

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Published in J Clin Microbiol on July 01, 1991

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S D Tyler1, W M Johnson, H Lior, G Wang, K R Rozee

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1: National Laboratory for Special Pathogens, Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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