High numbers of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli found in bovine faeces collected at slaughter in Japan

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 238, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 189-197

  Fukushima, Hiroshi ^a   Seki, Ryotaro ^a  

^a Matsue Shimane 690 0122 Japan   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cattle; EHEC 0111; EHEC 0157; EHEC 026; Faeces; Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli

Indexed keywords

AGAR; CEFIXIME; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; SHIGA TOXIN; SORBITOL; TELLURITE; TELLURIUM DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATTLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EAE GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; HLYA GENE; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; PH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; SCREENING; SEROTYPE; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; STX1 GENE; STX2 GENE;

ABATTOIRS; ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COLON; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FECES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; JAPAN; O ANTIGENS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPING; SHIGA TOXINS; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN I; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN II;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 4444299082     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.07.035     Document Type: Article

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