Fate of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 in bovine feces

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2567-2570

  Wang, Guodong ^a   Zhao, Tong ^a   Doyle, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VEROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CATTLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; NONHUMAN; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029902204     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.7.2567-2570.1996     Document Type: Article

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