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Genes specifying receptors for F18 fimbriated Escherichia coli, causing oedema disease and postweaning diarrhoea in pigs, map to chromosome 6.
Animal genetics - 1 Oct 1996
Vögeli P, Bertschinger H U, Stamm M, Stricker C, Hagger C, Fries R, Rapacz J, Stranzinger G
Abstract excerpt
The study comprised 236 pigs selected for resistance or susceptibility to oedema disease. The susceptibility to colonization of the small intestine by an Escherichia coli strain causing oedema disease was determined: (1) by monitoring faecal excretion of weaned pigs orally inoculated with E. coli strain O139:K12(B):H1:F18ab serotype; and (2) by an in vitro adhesion assay using an F18ab positive E. coli strain and...
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