Faecal carriage of verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 in cattle and sheep at slaughter in Great Britain

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Paiba, GA [1 ]
Gibbens, JC
Pascoe, SJS
Wilesmith, JW
Kidd, SA
Byrne, C
Ryan, JBM
Smith, RR
McLaren, IM
Futter, RJ
Kay, ACS
Jones, YE
Chappell, SA
Willshaw, GA
Cheasty, T
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[1] Vet Labs Agcy, Dept Epidemiol, Addlestone KT15 3NB, Surrey, England
[2] Vet Labs Agcy, Dept Bacterial Dis, Addlestone KT15 3NB, Surrey, England
[3] DEFRA, State Vet Serv, Exot Dis Team, London SW1P 4PQ, England
[4] Vet Labs Agcy, Preston PR3 5HE, Lancs, England
[5] PHLS, Lab Enter Pathogens, London NW9 5HT, England
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10.1136/vr.150.19.593
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S85 [动物医学(兽医学)];
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A 12-month abattoir survey was conducted between January 1999 and January 2000, to determine the prevalence of faecal carriage of verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia Coli O157 (VTEC O157) in cattle and sheep slaughtered for human consumption in Great Britain. Samples of rectum containing faeces were collected from 3939 cattle and 4171 sheep at 118 abattoirs, in numbers proportional to the throughput of the premises. The annual prevalence of faecal carriage Of VTEC O157 was 4.7 per cent (95 per cent confidence interval 4.1 to 5.4) for cattle and 1.7 per cent (1.3 to 2.1) for sheep, values which were statistically significantly different from each other (P<0.001). The organisms were recovered from both cattle and sheep slaughtered throughout the year and at abattoirs in all regions of the country, but the highest prevalence was in the summer. The most frequency recovered VTEC O157 isolates were phage types 2, 8 and 21/28 in cattle and 4 and 32 in sheep, the five most frequently isolated phage types associated with illness in people in Great Britain during the same period.
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