Domestic cats constitute a natural reservoir of human enteropathogenic escherichia coli types

Zoonoses and Public Health

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 229-237

  Morato, E P ^a   Leomil, L ^a   Beutin, L ^b   Krause, G ^b   Moura, R A ^a   Pestana De Castro, A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

AAEC; Brazil; Cats; EPEC; Humans; MLST

Indexed keywords

INTIMIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRAZIL; CAT; CELL ADHESION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CARRIER; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES CULTURE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; ZOONOSIS;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FECES; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 65649147893     PISSN: 18631959     EISSN: 18632378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1863-2378.2008.01190.x     Document Type: Article

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