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High diversity among environmental Escherichia coli isolates from a bovine feedlot.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Mar 2004
Yang Hsiao-Hui, Vinopal Robert T, Grasso Domenico, Smets Barth F
Abstract excerpt
Approximately 280 Escherichia coli isolates were isolated from a bovine feedlot at the University of Connecticut campus via enrichment in lauryl tryptose broth and random selection from MacConkey plates. The E. coli subspecies diversity was estimated by employing whole-cell BOX-PCR genomic fingerprints. A total of 89 distinct operational taxonomic units (OTUs) were identified by employing a criterion of 85%...
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