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Non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli isolated from diarrhoeic calves in Argentina.
Journal of veterinary medicine. B, Infectious diseases and veterinary public health - 1 Mar 2004
Mercado E C, Gioffré A, Rodríguez S M, Cataldi A, Irino K, Elizondo A M, Cipolla A L, Romano M I, Malena R, Méndez M A
Abstract excerpt
Faecal samples from 76 diarrhoeic calves belonging to 36 farms located in the Pampas plain, Argentina, were examined for Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC). A total of 15 STEC strains were isolated from 12 (15.8%) calves which came from six different farms. All stx positive strains assayed by PCR were also positives in the Vero cell cytotoxicity test. The majority (60.0%) of the STEC strains carried...
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