Analysis of feces samples collected from a wild-bird garden feeding station in Scotland for the presence of verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O157

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 2265-2267

  Foster, Geoffrey ^a   Evans, Judith ^a   Knight, Hazel I ^a,b   Smith, Alastair W ^a,b   Gunn, George J ^a   Allison, Lesley J ^c   Synge, Barti A ^a   Pennycott, Tom W ^a  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGES; GENES; MICROBIOLOGY; TOXIC MATERIALS;

ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC E. COLI HLYA GENES; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; VEROCYTOTOXIN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

VEROTOXIN;

BACTERIUM; FECES;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; BIRD; EAEA GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FECES ANALYSIS; HLYA GENE; NONHUMAN; UNITED KINGDOM; VTX2 GENE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIRDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; SCOTLAND; SHIGA TOXINS;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33644933285     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.3.2265-2267.2006     Document Type: Article

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