Cefixime-tellurite rhamnose MacConkey agar for isolation of Vero cytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli serogroup O26 from Scottish cattle and sheep faeces

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 148-152

  Evans, J ^a,c   Knight, H I ^a,b   Smith, A W ^a,b   Pearce, M C ^a,b   Hall, M ^a   Foster, G ^a   Low, J C ^a   Gunn, G J ^a  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c SAC Epidemiology Research Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CT RMac; Escherichia coli O26; Rhamnose; TBX

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ANIMALS; POLYSACCHARIDES; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

ANIMAL FECES; CT-RMAC; CYTOTOXINS; E. COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O26; GLUCURONIDES; RHAMNOSE; SEROGROUPS; TRYPTONE; TRYPTONE BILE X-GLUCURONIDE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AGAR; CEFIXIME; RHAMNOSE; TELLURITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEROTOXIN; X GLUCURONIDE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALS; MICROBIOLOGY;

AGAR; BACTERIUM; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FECES; SHEEP; TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FERMENTATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; BOS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 50449089533     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: 1472765X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2008.02402.x     Document Type: Article

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