Shiga toxigenic and atypical enteropathogenic escherichia coli in the feces and carcasses of slaughtered pigs

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1119-1125

  Borges, Clarissa Araújo ^a   Beraldo, Lívia Gerbasi ^a   Maluta, Renato Pariz ^b   Cardozo, Marita Vedovelli ^a   Guth, Beatriz Ernestina Cabilio ^c   Rigobelo, Everlon Cid ^a   De Ávila, Fernando Antônio ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; EAE PROTEIN; EHXA PROTEIN; LPFA PROTEIN; SHIGA TOXIN 2E; TOXB PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEROTOXIN 1; VEROTOXIN 2; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CARCASS; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GENETIC SIMILARITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SWINE;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMALS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FECES; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPING; SHIGA TOXINS; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SUIDAE;

EID: 84871302282     PISSN: 15353141     EISSN: 15567125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2012.1206     Document Type: Article

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