Characterization of Climical and Commensal Escherichia coli Isolates from an Integrated Turkey Operation
Pathogenic E. coli infections cause approximately one quarter of disease losses in commercial turkey flocks. A small subgroup of E. coli causes most infections. Epidemiologic studies of this disease have been hindered by a lack of reliable markers to discriminate between pathogenic and fecal E. coli...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29668 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11192001-144315/ |