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Evaluation of virulence factor profiling in the characterization of veterinary Escherichia coli isolates.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Nov 2010
David Donna E, Lynne Aaron M, Han Jing, Foley Steven L
Abstract excerpt
Escherichia coli has been used as an indicator organism for fecal contamination of water and other environments and is often a commensal organism in healthy animals, yet a number of strains can cause disease in young or immunocompromised animals. In this study, 281 E. coli isolates from bovine, porcine, chicken, canine, equine, feline, and other veterinary sources were analyzed by BOXA1R PCR and by virulence...
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