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American Society for Microbiology, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 12(79), p. 3892-3896, 2013

DOI: 10.1128/aem.00182-13

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Identification of Potentially Diarrheagenic Atypical Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Strains Present in Canadian Food Animals at Slaughter and in Retail Meats

Journal article published in 2013 by Raven Comery, Ajitha Thanabalasuriar, Andrea Portt, Reid Smith Rj, Philippe Garneau, Richard J. Reid Smith, Josée Harel, Patrick Boerlin, Amee R. Manges, Manges Ar, Samantha Gruenheid ORCID
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Abstract

ABSTRACT This study identified and characterized enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) in the Canadian food supply. Eighteen of 450 E. coli isolates from food animal sources were identified as atypical EPEC (aEPEC). Several of the aEPEC isolates identified in this study possessed multiple virulence genes, exhibited adherence and attaching and effacing (A/E) lesion formation, disrupted tight junctions, and were coclassified with the extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli (ExPEC) and enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) pathotypes.