Quantifying within- and between-animal variation and uncertainty associated with counts of Escherichia coli O157 occurring in naturally infected cattle faeces

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 169-177

  Robinson, S E ^a   Brown, P E ^b,c   Wright, E J ^a   Hart, C A ^a   French, N P ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cattle; Concentration; Epidemiology; Escherichia coli O157; Variation

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RANDOM PROCESSES; STANDARDIZATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CATTLE; CONCENTRATION; E. COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; FAECAL SAMPLES; HUMAN INFECTIONS; MICROBIAL COUNTS; MULTIPLE SAMPLES; RANDOM EFFECTS; SHORT PERIODS; STATISTICAL MODELS; UNCERTAINTY AND VARIABILITIES; VARIATION;

ANIMALS;

ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; BOS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 58149163317     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2008.0183     Document Type: Article

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