Presence of a Human Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli Clone in Captivity Kept Psittacidaes

Bacterial cultures of cloaca swabs from 86 captivity kept psittacidaes revealed 17 Escherichia coli bearing birds sharing strains which, on the basis of enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC) PCR analysis, proved to be genetically similar. Further, triplex PCR specific for the geneti...

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Main Authors: Marietto-Gonçalves, Guilherme A, de Almeida, Silvia M, Rodrigues, Josias
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Bentham Open 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3141334/