Comparison of fecal versus rectoanal mucosal swab sampling for detecting Escherichia coli O157:H7 in experimentally inoculated cattle used in assessing bacteriophage as a mitigation strategy

Journal of Food Protection

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 691-698

  Niu, Y D ^a,b   Xu, Y ^a   McAllister, T A ^c   Rozema, E A ^b,d   Stephens, T P ^b   Bach, S J ^e   Johnson, R P ^f   Stanford, K ^b  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b ALBERTA AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT   (Canada)

^c LETHBRIDGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^f PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 41849136527     PISSN: 0362028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X-71.4.691     Document Type: Article

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