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Analysis of Feces Samples Collected from a Wild-Bird Garden Feeding Station in Scotland for the Presence of Verocytotoxin-Producing Escherichia coli O157 |
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| Authors: | Geoffrey Foster Judith Evans Hazel I. Knight Alastair W. Smith George J. Gunn Lesley J. Allison Barti A. Synge Tom W. Pennycott |
| 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. One sample was positive for Escherichia coli O157. The isolate belonged to phage type 21/28 and possessed vtx2, eaeA, and enterohemorrhagic E. coli hlyA genes. |
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