Inheritance of resistance to oedema disease in the pig: experiments with an Escherichia coli strain expressing fimbriae 107.

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Inheritance of resistance to intestinal colonization with E. coli causing oedema disease is hypothesized to be under the control of one locus consisting of two alleles with susceptibility (S) dominating resistance (s). This mode of inheritance was investigated by mating pigs, resistant and susceptible to the disease, and examining the offspring. Weaned piglets were repeatedly inoculated orally with 5 x 10(5) CFU...

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