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Comparison of necrotoxigenic Escherichia coli isolates from farm animals and from humans.
Veterinary microbiology - 1 Oct 1999
Mainil J G, Jacquemin E, Pohl P, Fairbrother J M, Ansuini A, Le Bouguénec C, Ball H J, De Rycke J, Oswald E
Abstract excerpt
Necrotoxigenic Escherichia coli (NTEC) isolated from animals and humans can belong to the same serogroups/types and produce or carry the genes coding for fimbrial and afimbrial adhesins of the same family, P, S, F17, and/or AFA, raising the question of a potential zoonotic source of human infection. The main purpose of this study was to compare 239 NTEC1 strains (45 from cattle, 65 from humans and 129 from...
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