The effects of transport and lairage on counts of escherichia coli o157 in the feces and on the hides of individual cattle

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1113-1120

  Fegan, Narelle ^a   Higgs, Glen ^a   Duffy, Lesley L ^a   Barlow, Robert S ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CARCASS; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FECES ANALYSIS; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; MOST PROBABLE NUMBER METHOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; TRANSPORT HOST;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL SHEDDING; CATTLE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; MEAT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECTUM; SKIN; TRANSPORTATION;

ANIMALIA; BOS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 70449331661     PISSN: 15353141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2009.0338     Document Type: Article

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