Article
Occurrence of Escherichia coli virulence genes in feces of wild birds from Central Italy
2019-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Objective: To investigate the potential role of wild birds as fecal spreaders of enteropathogenic, enterohemorrhagic and Shiga-toxins producing Escherichia coli (E. coli), enteropathogenic E. coli, enterohemorrhagic E. coli and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli strains.Methods: Fecal samples collected from 121 wild birds of different orders and species were submitted to molecular analyses. In particular, eaeA encoding...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 220de25f-be33-59e9-b17d-f09afe342234
- DOI
- 10.4103/1995-7645.254941
