Duration and magnitude of faecal shedding of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli from naturally infected cattle

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 67-75

  Widiasih, D A ^a,b   Ido, N ^a   Omoe, K ^a   Sugii, S ^c   Shinagawa, K ^a  

^a IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^c Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHIGA TOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BREEDING; CATTLE DISEASE; CATTLE FARMING; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXCRETION; FECES ANALYSIS; INTESTINE; JAPAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RECTUM; SEROTYPING;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; JAPAN; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; SEROTYPING; SHIGA TOXINS; TIME FACTORS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 1242352431     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268803001468     Document Type: Article

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