A diagnosis strategy to determine the Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 status of pens of feedlot cattle

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 297-302

  Smith, D R ^a   Gray, J T ^a,b   Moxley, R A ^a   Younts Dahl, S M ^a,c   Blackford, M P ^a   Hinkley, S ^a   Hungerford, L L ^a,d   Milton, C T ^a,e   Klopfenstein, T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHIGA TOXIN;

ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CATTLE DISEASE; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES CULTURE; FOOD SAFETY; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOXIN ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATTLE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; RISK;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; RISK; SHIGA TOXIN;

EID: 1842502933     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268803001699     Document Type: Article

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