A fifteen month study of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in a dairy herd

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 17-25

  Mechie, S C ^a   Chapman, P A ^b   Siddons, C A ^b  

^a West House   (United Kingdom)

^b Public Health Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VEROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATTLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENOTYPE; LACTATION; MILK; NONHUMAN; PLASMID;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; CATTLE; DAIRYING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; MILK; PLASMIDS; PREVALENCE; SEASONS;

EID: 0031045444     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268896007194     Document Type: Article

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