Detection of Escherichia coli O104 in the feces of feedlot cattle by a multiplex PCR assay designed to target major genetic traits of the virulent hybrid strain responsible for the 2011 German outbreak

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3522-3525

  Paddock, Z D ^a   Bai, J ^a   Shi, X ^a   Renter, D G ^a   Nagaraja, T G ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

E. COLI; ENTEROAGGREGATIVE; FECAL SAMPLES; FEEDLOT CATTLES; GENETIC TRAITS; MULTIPLEX PCR; PATHOTYPE; TOXIGENIC;

MULTIPLEXING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

PRIMER DNA;

BIOASSAY; CATTLE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE VECTOR; FECES; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PATHOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLING; VIRULENCE;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FECES; GENETICS; HYBRIDIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

GERMANY;

EID: 84877146679     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00246-13     Document Type: Article

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