Verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli: Isolation and prevalence in 60 dairy cattle farms from Pelotas-RS, Brazil;Escherichia coli verotoxigênica: Isolamento e prevalência em 60 propriedades de bovinos de leite da região de Pelotas, RS, Brasil

Ciencia Rural

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 175-182

  Sandrini, Cecília Nunes Moreira ^a   Pereira, Murilo Anderson ^b   Brod, Claudiomar Soares ^b   Carvalha, José Beiro ^b   Aleixo, José Antonio Guimarães ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cattle; Escherichia coli; Verotoxins; VTEC

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33846421614     PISSN: 01038478     EISSN: 16784596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0103-84782007000100028     Document Type: Article

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