Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Longitudinal study of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli shedding in sheep feces: persistence of specific clones in sheep flocks.
- Journal:
- Applied and environmental microbiology
- Year:
- 2009
- Authors:
- Sánchez, Sergio et al.
- Affiliation:
- Patologí · Spain
Abstract
To provide information on the persistence and maintenance of colonization with Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) in sheep, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis of STEC isolates (n = 145) belonging to serogroups O5, O91, and O146 from 39 healthy animals was performed in a 12-month longitudinal study carried out with four sheep flocks. At the flock level as well as the individual-animal level, the same clones were obtained on sampling occasions separated by as much as 11 months.
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