Article
Virulence profiles of Shiga toxin 2e-producing Escherichia coli isolated from healthy pig at slaughter.
Veterinary microbiology - 31 Oct 2006
Zweifel C, Schumacher S, Beutin L, Blanco J, Stephan R
Abstract excerpt
Recently, virulence patterns of Stx2e-producing Escherichia coli from pigs with edema disease and from humans were compared and strains from diseased pigs were reported to be unlikely human pathogens [Sonntag, A.K., Bielaszewska, M., Mellmann, A., Dierksen, N., Schierack, P., Wieler, L.H., Schmid...
Topics
- Abattoirs
- Animals
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Base Sequence
- Carrier State
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Infections
- Escherichia coli O157
- Feces
- Genotype
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny
- Shiga Toxin 2
- Swine
- Swine Diseases
- Switzerland
- Virulence