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Variable and strain dependent colonisation of chickens by Escherichia coli O157.
Veterinary microbiology - 25 Apr 2005
La Ragione R M, Best A, Sprigings K, Liebana E, Woodward G R, Sayers A R, Woodward M J
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The prevalence of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157 in poultry is considered minimal compared with other species, especially ruminants. However, deliberate inoculation studies have shown that poultry are readily and persistently infected by this organism but that the mechanism of colonisation is independent of intimin, a recognised factor in host-EHEC interactions in mammalian species, and may be...
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