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Ferrets as a Model System for Renal Disease Secondary to Intestinal Infection withEscherichia coliO157:H7 and Other Shiga Toxin–ProducingE. coli
15 Feb 2002
Abstract excerpt
Ferrets were evaluated as a possible small animal model for the development of colitis and/or signs of the hemolytic uremic syndrome after oral infection with Escherichia coli O157:H7 or other Shiga toxin--producing E. coli (STEC). Ferrets treated with streptomycin (Stm) had higher counts of E. coli O157:H7 strain 86-24 Stm-resistant (Stm(r)) or O91:H21 strain B2F1 Stm(r) in their stools than non--Stm-treated...
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