Occurrence and characterisation of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli isolates from diarrhoeic calves

Comparative Clinical Pathology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 295-300

  Badouei, Mahdi Askari ^a   Salehi, Taghi Zahraei ^a   Khorasgani, Mohammad Rabbani ^a   Tadjbakhsh, Hasan ^b   Brujeni, Gholamreza Nikbakht ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b Iranian Academy of Science   (Iran)

Author keywords

Calf diarrhoea; EHEC; HUS; Multiplex PCR

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952092637     PISSN: 16185641     EISSN: 1618565X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00580-009-0873-0     Document Type: Article

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