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Diversity of Escherichia coli O157 in a longitudinal farm study using multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis.
Journal of applied microbiology - 1 Nov 2008
Urdahl A M, Strachan N J C, Wasteson Y, Macrae M, Ogden I D
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AIMS: To perform a longitudinal study of the diversity of Escherichia coli O157 from a ruminant pasture/stream environment using multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA). METHODS AND RESULTS: Samples of faecal droppings from grazing ruminants and from an adjacent stream were tested longitudinally for E. coli O157 by enrichment and immunomagnetic separation (IMS). Using MLVA, 24 different...
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