A 1-year study of Escherichia coli O157 in cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 245-250

  Chapman, P A ^a   Siddons, C A ^a   Cerdan Malo, A T ^a   Harkin, M A ^a  

^a Public Health Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; CEFIXIME; CEFSULODIN; PEPTONE; SORBITOL; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATTLE; CELL SEPARATION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POULTRY; PREVALENCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHEEP; SWINE; VERO CELL;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; ENGLAND; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; POULTRY DISEASES; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 0030712202     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268897007826     Document Type: Article

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