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Science 11 September 1998:
Vol. 281. no. 5383, pp. 1666 - 1668
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5383.1666
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Grain Feeding and the Dissemination of Acid-Resistant Escherichia coli from Cattle

Francisco Diez-Gonzalez, Todd R. Callaway, Menas G. Kizoulis, James B. Russell *

The gastric stomach of humans is a barrier to food-borne pathogens, but Escherichia coli can survive at pH 2.0 if it is grown under mildly acidic conditions. Cattle are a natural reservoir for pathogenic E. coli, and cattle fed mostly grain had lower colonic pH and more acid-resistant E. coli than cattle fed only hay. On the basis of numbers and survival after acid shock, cattle that were fed grain had 106-fold more acid-resistant E. coli than cattle fed hay, but a brief period of hay feeding decreased the acid-resistant count substantially.

Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Microbiology, Cornell University and Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ithaca, NY 14853-8101, USA.
*   To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jbr8{at}cornell.edu.

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