Analysis of feces samples collected from a wild-bird garden feeding station in Scotland for the presence of verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O157
Article Abstract:
Composite wild bird feces collected at regular intervals from a garden feeding station in southwest Scotland over a 3-year period were examined for verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 causing infections in humans. The findings indicate that VTEC O157 appears and disappears from cattle herds over time, and it might be that local bird populations play a role in the spread of the organism between farms and possibly over larger distances due to migratory habits.
Publication Name: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0099-2240
Year: 2006
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Analysis of the clonal relationship of shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli serogroup O165:H25 isolated from cattle
Article Abstract:
A study was conducted by characterizing different bovine Escherichia coli (EHEC) O165:H25 isolates to assess their potential to cause EHEC disease in humans. It showed that bovine O165:H25 isolates could carry virulence factors of EHEC that are associated with EHEC-related disease in humans, particularly hemorrhagic colitis and hemolytic-uremic syndrome, which might represent a considerable risk for human infection.
Publication Name: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0099-2240
Year: 2006
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Characterization of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli isolates associated with two multistate food-borne outbreaks that occurred in 2006
Article Abstract:
Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli isolates from two 2006 outbreaks are compared to other O157:H7 isolates for their virulence genotype, biofilm formation and stress responses. The studies have also demonstrated a cooperative biofilm formation involving an Escherichia coli O157:H7 strain and a non-O157:H7 strain.
Publication Name: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0099-2240
Year: 2008
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Effects of granule-associated protein PhaP on glycerol-dependent growth and polymer production in poly(3-hydroxybutyrate)-producing Escherichia coli
- Abstracts: Inhibition of fungal colonization by Pseudoalteromonas tunicata provides a competitive advantage during surface colonization
- Abstracts: Novel methods for genetic transformation of natural Bacillus subtilis isolates used to study the regulation of the mycosubtilin and surfactin synthetases
- Abstracts: Global carbon utilization profiles of wild-type, mutant, and transformant strains of Hypocrea jecorina. Role of the bga1-encoded extracellular beta-galactosidase of hypocrea jecorina in cellulase induction by lactose