Prevalence and concentration of verotoxigenic escherichia coli O157:H7 in adult sheep at slaughter from Italy

Zoonoses and Public Health

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 215-220

  Franco, A ^a   Lovari, S ^a   Cordaro, G ^a   Di Matteo, P ^a   Sorbara, L ^a   Iurescia, M ^a   Donati, V ^a   Buccella, C ^a   Battisti, A ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLE REGIONI LAZIO E TOSCANA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Concentration; Escherichia coli O157; Prevalence; Sheep; Veterinary epidemiology and bacteriology; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTICLE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DAIRY PRODUCT; DISEASE CARRIER; FECES CULTURE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; ITALY; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RANDOM SAMPLE; SCREENING; SEASON; SEROLOGY; SHEEP; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; VIRULENCE; ZOONOSIS;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMALS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; ITALY; PREVALENCE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 65649148646     PISSN: 18631959     EISSN: 18632378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1863-2378.2008.01188.x     Document Type: Article

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