Diet and environment shape fecal bacterial microbiota composition and enteric pathogen load of grizzly bears

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Schwab, Clarissa ^a,c   Cristescu, Bogdan ^a   Northrup, Joseph M ^a   Stenhouse, Gordon B ^b   Gänzle, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Foothills Research Institute   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOLIPASE C; BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BEAR; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CLOSTRIDIUM SORDELLII; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; ENTEROAGGREGATIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENVIRONMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES MICROFLORA; FEMALE; FRUIT; INSECT; INTESTINE FLORA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGEN LOAD; PLANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREY; PROTEIN INTAKE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; URSUS ARCTOS; VEGETABLE; WILD ANIMAL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL LOAD; CANADA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FECES; GENETICS; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALBERTA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL TOXINS; DIET; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENVIRONMENT; FECES; GENES, BACTERIAL; HOUSING, ANIMAL; METAGENOME; URSIDAE;

EID: 83455205841     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027905     Document Type: Article

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