Are super-shedder feedlot cattle really super?

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 329-331

  Munns, Krysty D ^a,b   Selinger, Lorna ^a   Stanford, Kim ^c   Selinger, L Brent ^b   McAllister, Tim A ^a  

^a LETHBRIDGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^c ALBERTA AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SHEDDING; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BACTERIAL COUNT; BOVINAE; CANADA; CATTLE DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FECES; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RECTUM; TIME; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY;

ALBERTA; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL SHEDDING; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; GENOTYPE; MALE; RECTUM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84897382715     PISSN: 15353141     EISSN: 15567125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2013.1621     Document Type: Article

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