Contamination of sheep carcasses with verocytotoxin producing Escherchia coli during slaughtering

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Volumn 57, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 25-27

  Tahamtan, Y ^a   Hayati, M ^a   Namavari, M Mehdi ^a  

^a RAZI VACCINE AND SERUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Contamination; Escherchia coli O157; Sheep carcasses

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FOOD CONTROL; IRAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; SHEEP DISEASES;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMALS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; IRAN; MEAT; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANIMALIA; BOVIDAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 77954440117     PISSN: 18651674     EISSN: 18651682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1865-1682.2010.01128.x     Document Type: Article

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