Occurrence, virulence genes and antimicrobial resistance of escherichia coli o157 in bovine, caprine, ovine and porcine carcasses in greece

Journal of Food Safety

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 242-249

  Govaris, Alexandros ^a   Angelidis, Apostolos S ^b   Katsoulis, Konstantinos ^a   Pournaras, Spyros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOVINAE; CAPRA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; OVIS; SUS;

EID: 79955012723     PISSN: 01496085     EISSN: 17454565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-4565.2010.00292.x     Document Type: Article

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