RT Journal Article
T1 Ruminants are not a reservoir of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli
A1 Ruiz Santa Quiteria Serrano De La Cruz, José Antonio
A1 García, Ángel
A1 Carrión Herrero, Francisco Javier
A1 Orden Gutiérrez, José Antonio
A1 Domínguez Bernal, Gustavo Ramón
A1 Horcajo Iglesias, María Del Pilar
AB Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) causes both acute and persistent diarrhoea among children and adults in developing and developed countries. In addition, the large outbreak of food-borne illness in Europe in the summer of 2011 was caused by a verotoxin-producing EAEC O104:H4 strain. The public health threat posed by EAEC makes it important to identify animal reservoirs that might lead to epidemics in humans. Based on only one study in sheep and a few in cattle, researchers have suggested that EAEC are not found in ruminants. To expand the available data on this question, the present study applied polymerase chain reaction to faecal samples from 920 cattle, sheep and goats to detect EAEC. None of the samples tested positive for any of the EAEC genes tested, suggesting that goats, like cattle and sheep, are unlikely to be a significant reservoir of EAEC.
PB Universidad Austral de Chile
SN 0719-8132
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/93735
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/93735
LA eng
NO Orden, J. A., Domínguez‐Bernal, G., Horcajo, P., Ruiz-Santa-Quiteria, J. A., García-Muñoz, Á., & Carrión, J. (2017). Ruminants are not a reservoir of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli. Austral journal of veterinary sciences, 49(1), 25-26. https://doi.org/10.4067/s0719-81322017000100025
NO Sustainable Development Goals mapped to this document: Affordable and clean energy. Goal 7.
NO Universidad Complutense de Madrid-Banco Santander
NO GR3/14
DS Docta Complutense
RD 17 abr 2025