A national surveillance of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in food-producing animals in Japan

Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series B: Infectious Diseases and Veterinary Public Health

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 230-237

  Kijima Tanaka, M ^a   Ishihara, K ^a   Kojima, A ^a   Morioka, A ^a   Nagata, R ^a   Kawanishi, M ^a   Nakazawa, M ^a,b   Tamura, Y ^a   Takahashi, T ^a  

^a National Veterinary Assay Laboratory   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SUS SCROFA;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SHIGA TOXIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHICKEN; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FOOD CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; MEAT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPING; SWINE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATTLE; CHICKENS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; JAPAN; MEAT; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPING; SHIGA TOXIN; SWINE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 26944431646     PISSN: 09311793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0450.2005.00852.x     Document Type: Article

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