Prevalence of carriage of shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli serotypes O157:H7, O26:H11, O103:H2, O111:H8, and O145:H28 among slaughtered adult cattle in France

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1397-1405

  Bibbal, Delphine ^a   Loukiadis, Estelle ^b,c   Kérourédan, Monique ^a   Ferré, Franck ^b   Dilasser, Françoise ^d   de Garam, Carine Peytavin ^d   Cartier, Philippe ^e   Oswald, Eric ^f   Gay, Emilie ^g   Auvray, Frédéric ^d   Brugère, Hubert ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

^e Institut de l'Elevage   (France)

^f CHU PURPAN   (France)

^g FRENCH AGENCY FOR FOOD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEEF; GENE ENCODING; ISOMERS; MAMMALS;

ARITHMETIC MEAN; ENCODING GENES; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC E. COLI; FECAL SAMPLES; GENETIC CHARACTERISTICS; SHIGA TOXIN; SHIGA TOXIN-PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ADULT; CATTLE; FECAL COLIFORM; FECES; GENE EXPRESSION; TOXIN;

FRANCE;

BOS; BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; SHIGA TOXIN;

ANIMAL; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; BOVINE; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; VETERINARY;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMALS; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; CARRIER STATE; CATTLE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FEMALE; FRANCE; MALE; MEAT; PREVALENCE; SHIGA TOXINS; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84922022091     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03315-14     Document Type: Article

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