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Abstract
Escherichia coli O157 are zoonotic bacteria for which cattle are an important reservoir.
Prevalence estimates for E. coli O157 in British cattle for human consumption are over ten
years old. A new baseline is needed to inform current human health risk. The British
E. coli O157 in Cattle Study (BECS) ran between September 2014 and November 2015 on
270 farms across Scotland and England & Wales. This is the first study to be conducted
contemporaneously across Great Britain, thus enabling comparison between Scotland and
England & Wales. Herd-level prevalence estimates for E. coli O157 did not differ significantly
for Scotland (0.236, 95% CI 0.166 – 0.325) and England & Wales (0.213, 95% CI 0.156 –
0.283) (P = 0.65). The majority of isolates were verocytotoxin positive. A higher proportion of
samples from Scotland were in the super-shedder category, though there was no difference
between the surveys in the likelihood of a positive farm having at least one super-shedder
sample. E. coli O157 continues to be common in British beef cattle, reaffirming public health
policy that contact with cattle and their environments is a potential infection source.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 3168 - 3179 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Epidemiology and Infection |
Volume | 145 |
Issue number | 15 |
Early online date | 19 Sept 2017 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | First published - 19 Sept 2017 |
Bibliographical note
2077648Keywords
- Bovine
- Epidemiology
- Escherichia coli (E. coli)
- Estimating disease prevalence
- O157
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E. coli O157 super-shedding in cattle and mitigation of human risk
Tongue, S. (PI)
1/01/14 → 28/02/18
Project: Research
Research output
- 23 Citations
- 2 Article
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Analysis of Escherichia coli O157 strains in cattle and humans between Scotland and England & Wales: implications for human health
Chase-Topping, M., Dallman, T. J., Allison, L., Lupolova, N., Matthews, L., Mitchell, S., Banks, C. J., Prentice, J., Brown, H., Tongue, S., Henry, M., Evans, J., Gunn, G., Hoyle, D., McNeilly, T. N., Fitzgerald, S., Smith-Palmer, A., Shaaban, S., Holmes, A. & Hanson, M. & 4 others, , 6 Sept 2023, (First published) In: Microbial Genomics. 9, 9, 001090.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Genome structural variation in Escherichia coli O157:H7
Fitzgerald, S., Lupolova, N., Shaaban, S., Dallman, T. J., Greig, D., Allison, L., Tongue, S., Evans, J., Henry, M., McNeilly, T. N., Bono, J. & Gally, D. L., 9 Nov 2021, (First published) In: Microbial Genomics. 7, 11, 000682.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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