Impact of dexamethasone-induced immunosuppression on the duration and level of shedding of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in calves

Current Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 651-655

  Sreerama, Sruti ^a   Sanderson, Michael W ^a   Wilkerson, Melinda ^a   Nagaraja, T G ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CALF (BOVINE); COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES ANALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; IMMUNOMODULATION; INOCULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DEXAMETHASONE; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 43549113335     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-008-9131-y     Document Type: Article

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