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• Food and waterborne zoonotic pathogen • Initially isolated from Michigan ground beef outbreak in 1982 • Most commonly isolated serotype in North America E. coli O157:H7 • Hemorrhagic colitis, Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS), death • Everyone is susceptible (!) although young and elderly are high risk
E. coli O157:H7 in the feedlot • Cattle are natural reservoirs of E. coli O157:H7 and harbour in feces • Asymptomatic carriers: transient and intermittent (10- 100 cfu/g) • Super shedders (10,000 cfu/g) • Season, age, weaning, transport, stress, diet • The effect of feeding Distillers The effect of feeding Distillers grains to cattle Environment
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Page 5 and 6: Effect of DDGS on E. coli O157:H7 i
Page 7 and 8: E. coli O157:H7 in ground beef •
Page 9 and 10: Isolation of Endemic phage from the
Page 11 and 12: Further characterization of phages
Page 13 and 14: Acknowledgements T. A. McAllister,

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