Grain feeding and the dissemination of acid-resistant Escherichia coli from cattle
Grain feeding and the dissemination of acid-resistant Escherichia coli from cattle
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Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science
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English
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Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science
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The gastric stomach of humans is a barrier to food-borne pathogens, but Escherichia coli can survive at pH 2.0 if it is grown under mildly acidic conditions. Cattle are a natural reservoir for pathogenic E. coli, and cattle fed mostly grain had lower colonic pH and more acid-resistant E. coli than cattle fed only hay. On the basis of numbers and su...
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Grain feeding and the dissemination of acid-resistant Escherichia coli from cattle
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_743222870
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_743222870
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0036-8075
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1095-9203
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10.1126/science.281.5383.1666
