Detection of heat-stable and heat-labile enterotoxin genes of Escherichia coli in diarrhoeic faecal samples of mithun (Bos frontalis) calves by polymerase chain reaction

Journal of Applied Microbiology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 455-458

  Rajkhowa, S ^a   Hussain, I ^b   Rajkhowa, C ^c  

^a National Research Centre on Pig (ICAR)   (India)

^b SHER E KASHMIR UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY OF KASHMIR   (India)

^c National Research Centre on Mithun India   (India)

Author keywords

Calves; Diarrhoea; LT enterotoxin gene; PCR; ST enterotoxin gene

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES;

CALF; DIARRHEA; E. COLI; ENTEROTOXIGENIC; ENTEROTOXINS; FAECAL SAMPLES; LT ENTEROTOXIN GENE; SEROGROUPS; STABLE ENTEROTOXIN GENE;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN;

CAUSE OF DEATH; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DIARRHEAL DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; ISOLATED POPULATION; MORTALITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RUMINANT; TOXIN; YOUNG POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; BOS FRONTALIS; CALF (BOVINE); CATTLE; COW; DIARRHEA; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THERMOSTABILITY;

BOS FRONTALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 58549104388     PISSN: 13645072     EISSN: 13652672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.2008.04013.x     Document Type: Article

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