Differing populations of endemic bacteriophages in cattle shedding high and low numbers of escherichia coli O157:H7 bacteria in feces

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 3819-3825

  Hallewell, J ^a,b   Niu, Y D ^c   Munns, K ^b   McAllister, T A ^b   Johnson, R P ^d   Ackermann, H W ^e   Thomas, J E ^a   Stanford, K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^c ALBERTA AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT   (Canada)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHORESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DIRECT PLATING; E.COLI O157:H7; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157:H7; GENOME SIZES; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; NATURALLY OCCURRING; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TIME POINTS;

BACTERIOPHAGES;

BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; CATTLE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FECES; GENOME; HOST RANGE; IMMUNOASSAY; MORPHOLOGY;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL SHEDDING; BOVINE; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION; COLIPHAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYOVIRIDAE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SIPHOVIRIDAE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VETERINARY; VIRION; VIROLOGY;

ALBERTA; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL SHEDDING; CATTLE; COLIPHAGES; DNA, VIRAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MYOVIRIDAE; SIPHOVIRIDAE; VIRION;

EID: 84902193822     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00708-14     Document Type: Article

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