Short communication: Rare VTEC serotypes of potential zoonotic risk isolated from bovine hides and carcases

Veterinary Record

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Wieczorek, K ^a   Beutin, L ^b   Osek, J ^a  

^a NATIONAL VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOVINAE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HYGIENE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; SEROTYPING; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SKIN; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; ZOONOSIS;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HUMANS; HYGIENE; SEROTYPING; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; SKIN; ZOONOSES;

EID: 79952260342     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.c5263     Document Type: Article

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