Agradecimentos: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) provided funding to R.P.M. (2012/05073-3 and 2013/25615-8) and to T.C.G.R. (2013/ 09167-5). Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) provided funding to Wanderley Dias da Silveira. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication...
Agradecimentos: The authors thank Clarisse Desautels and Ghyslaine Vanier for technical assistance. L.F.R. held a Master's degree scholarship (process number 2011/04451-1) from Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); Abstract: The production of cheeses from unpasteurized milk is still widespread in Brazil, even with a legal ban imposed on its marketing. The manufacture of this cheese is a...
Agradecimentos: R.P.M. (grant number 2008/00417-0) and C.A.B. received fellowships from Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) during the development of this work, which was funded by the same institution (grant number 2011/15050-8); Abstract: Avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) strains are isolated from lesions of poultry presenting colibacillosis, which is a disease that causes eit...
Abstract: The objectives of this study were to investigate whether antimicrobial resistance (AMR) or the presence of resistance genes was associated with the occurrence of the virulence genes, stx1, stx2 and eae. Three virulence genes and 11 AMR phenotypes were examined using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and antimicrobial susceptibility tests. From 800 samples collected in this study, 561 samples were isolat...