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Duration and magnitude of faecal shedding of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli from naturally infected cattle.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Jan 2004
Widiasih D A, Ido N, Omoe K, Sugii S, Shinagawa K
Abstract excerpt
To clarify the epidemiological relationship between cattle and human infections of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC), we studied the duration and magnitude of the excretion of STEC O157 and STEC O26 with rectal faeces from naturally infected cattle at a breeding farm in the Tohoku area of Japan, using microbiological methods. The prevalence of STEC O157 was 3.5% (11/324), whereas that of STEC O26 was...
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