Dynamics of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) in feedlot cattle

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 85-89

  Midgley, J ^a,b   Fegan, N ^b   Desmarchelier, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHORESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; TOXIC MATERIALS;

COLIFORMS; COLONY HYBRIDIZATION; FAECAL SAMPLES; FEEDLOT CATTLES; NEGATIVE SAMPLES; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPES; SHIGA TOXIN; SHIGA TOXIN-PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; TOXIN GENES;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

SHIGA TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CATTLE DISEASE; CELL HYBRIDIZATION; DYNAMICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES MICROFLORA; FEEDING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032832993     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2672.1999.00585.x     Document Type: Article

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