Prevalence of enterotoxigenic and Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in pigs slaughtered in Mato Grosso, Brazil

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 123-126

  Martins, Rodrigo Prado ^a,c   da Silva, Maria Cristina ^a   Dutra, Valéria ^a   Nakazato, Luciano ^a   da Leite, Domingos Silva ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c Departamento de Genética   (Spain)

Author keywords

ETEC; Mato Grosso; PCR; Slaughterhouse; STEC

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BRAZIL; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; LT1 GENE; NONHUMAN; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; ST1 GENE; STX1 GENE; STX2 GENE; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 79952308753     PISSN: 20366590     EISSN: 19722680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3855/jidc.1217     Document Type: Article

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