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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DOI:
10.1126/science.281.5383.1666
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发表时间:
1998-09-11
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56.9
通讯作者:
Russell, JB
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Diez-Gonzalez, F;Callaway, TR;Russell, JB
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 survival after acid shock, cattle that were fed grain had 10(6)-fold more acid-resistant E. coli than cattle fed hay, but a brief period of hay feeding decreased the acid-resistant count substantially.