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Intestine and environment of the chicken as reservoirs for extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli strains with zoonotic potential.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Jan 2009
Ewers Christa, Antão Esther-Maria, Diehl Ines, Philipp Hans-C, Wieler Lothar H
Abstract excerpt
Although research has increasingly focused on the pathogenesis of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) infections and the "APEC pathotype" itself, little is known about the reservoirs of these bacteria. We therefore compared outbreak strains isolated from diseased chickens (n = 121) with nono...
Topics
- Animals
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Blood Bactericidal Activity
- Chickens
- Cluster Analysis
- DNA Fingerprinting
- DNA, Bacterial
- Disease Outbreaks
- Disease Reservoirs
- Environmental Microbiology
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Infections
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Genotype