Prevalence of diarrheagenic <i><scp>E</scp>scherichia coli</i> virulence genes in the feces of slaughtered cattle, chickens, and pigs in <scp>B</scp>urkina <scp>F</scp>aso

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We investigated the prevalence of the virulence genes specific for five major pathogroups of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) in primary cultures from feces of animals slaughtered for human consumption in Burkina Faso. For the study, 704 feces samples were collected from cattle (n = 304), chickens (n = 350), and pigs (n = 50) during carcass processing. The presence of the virulence-associated genes in the...

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