Concentration and prevalence of Escherichia coli O157 in sheep faeces at pasture in Scotland.

Iain D Ogden; Marion MacRae; Norval James Colin Strachan

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2672.2004.02493.x

Concentration and prevalence of Escherichia coli O157 in sheep faeces at pasture in Scotland.

Iain D Ogden, Marion MacRae, Norval James Colin Strachan

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Abstract

Aims: To study the presence, numbers and virulence profiles of Escherichia coli O157 in sheep faeces and validate the microbiological methods used to attain these data.

Methods and Results: Flock level prevalence was found to be 40% ( six from 15) and 6(.)5% of faecal samples tested were found to be positive. Two farms gave samples defined as high shedding (>10(4) CFU g(-1)), one of which comprised 91% positive samples with 13/33 at the high shedding level.

Conclusions: These data confirmed that sheep are an important reservoir of E. coli O157. Significance and Impact of the Study: Sheep play a significant role in the maintenance and dispersal of E. coli O157 in the farming environment and are an important source of human infection.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	646-651
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Applied Microbiology
Volume	98
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2672.2004.02493.x
Publication status	Published - 2005

Keywords

concentration and prevalence
Escherichia coli O157
immunomagnetic separation
sheep
QUANTITATIVE RISK-ASSESSMENT
VIRULENCE GENES
CATTLE
INFECTION
OUTBREAK
BEEF
SEROTYPES
SLAUGHTER
HAMBURGERS
SPAIN

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Concentration and prevalence of Escherichia coli O157 in sheep faeces at pasture in Scotland.

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