Studies on Escherichia coli strains isolated from lethal cases of rabbit mucoid enteritis
Czirók E; Vetési, F.
Acta Veterinaria Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 25(2-3): 163-169
1975
ISSN/ISBN: 0001-7205 PMID: 782213 Document Number: 88769
E. coli strains (65) isolated from the intestinal tract of 6 suckling and 52 growing rabbits with E. coli enterotoxemia were examined for the occurrence of serotypes pathogenic (especially enteropathogenic) for humans. Thirteen strains (20%) belonged to a pathogenic serogroup. Two of the 13 strains were E. coli dyspepsiae (serogroups O86 and O125); the remaining belonged to other serotypes pathogenic for man. Only 35% of the examined strains were sensitive to tetracycline. Of the attendants in charge of the rabbit flock studied, 17% excreted the strains responsible for E. coli enterotoxemia in the flock.