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Prevalence of tetracycline resistance and genotypic analysis of populations of Escherichia coli from animals, carcasses and cuts processed at a pig slaughterhouse.
International journal of food microbiology - 15 Nov 2009
Wu Shuyu, Dalsgaard Anders, Vieira Antonio R, Emborg Hanne-Dorthe, Jensen Lars B
Abstract excerpt
A Danish pig slaughterhouse was visited in this study to investigate the impact of carcass processing on prevalence of tetracycline-resistant Escherichia coli, and to identify the origins of carcass contaminations with E. coli by assessing genetic diversity of E. coli populations on carcasses. A total of 105 carcasses were sampled at five sequential stages: after stunning, after scalding, after splitting, after...
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