Prevalence of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli virulence genes from scouring piglets in Zimbabwe

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1539-1547

  Madoroba, Evelyn ^a   Van Driessche, Edilbert ^b   de Greve, Henri ^b   Mast, Jan ^c   Ncube, Ignatious ^d   Read, John ^e   Beeckmans, Sonia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c Belgian National Institute for Veterinary Research   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO   (South Africa)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Enterotoxigenic E. coli; Fimbriae genes; Neonatal scours; Toxin genes

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN; PRIMER DNA;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FIMBRIA; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ZIMBABWE;

AGGLUTINATION TESTS; ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SUS SCROFA; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; ZIMBABWE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SUS;

EID: 70350261814     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-009-9345-4     Document Type: Article

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