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livestock and wild animal feces
Pathogen Animals Incidence in Feces Reference

0.3 - 19.7%, feedlot a
0.7 - 27.3%, pasture
0.9 - 6.9%, range
0.2 - 27.8%, slaughter

E. coli O157 Beef cattle

U.S. (multiple states)
and multiple countries

Review of 39 separate
studies: Hussein and
Bollinger 2005

E. coli O157 Beef cattle (Scotland) 3.4%, some high

shedders b

Matthews and others
2006

E. coli O157:H7 Beef cattle

Dairy cattle
U.S. (multiple states)

3.6%
3.4%

Doane and others 2007

E. coli O157:H7 Beef cattle, hides

U.S. (multiple states)

9 - 85% Arthur and others

2007b

E. coli O157:H7 Zebu ( “ humped cattle ” ) 5.4% Tuyet and others 2006

Non - O157 E. coli Beef cattle

U.S. (multiple states)
and multiple countries

2.1 - 70.1% overall
4.6 - 55.9%, feedlot
4.7 - 44.8%, grazing
2.1 - 70.1%, slaughter

Review of 21 separate
studies: Hussein and
Bollinger 2005

E. coli O157 Sheep (U.K.) 6.5%, some high

shedders b

Ogden and others 2005

E. coli O157 Sheep (U.K.) 2.2% Chapman and others

1997

E. coli O157 Sheep (U.K.) 0.7% Milnes and others 2008

E. coli O157:H7 Sheep (U.S.) 4.4% Keen and others 2006

E. coli O157:H7 Sheep (Spain) 7.3% Oporto and others 2008

E. coli O157 Pigs (U.K.) 0.4% Chapman and others

1997

E. coli O157:H7 Pigs (U.S.) 2.0% Feder and others 2003

E. coli O157:H7 Pigs (Japan) 1.4% Nakazawa and Akiba

1999

E. coli O157 Pigs (U.K.) 6.7% Cooper and others 2007

E. coli O157 Pigs (U.K.) 0.3% Milnes and others 2007

E. coli O157:H7 Pigs (U.S.) 1.2% Keen and others 2006

E. coli O157:H7 Pigs (U.S.) 8.9% Doane and others 2007

14.9% c

E. coli O157:H7 Feral swine (U.S.) Jay and others 2007

E. coli O157:H7 Chickens

Turkeys
(U.S.)

0.9%
7.5%

Doane and others 2007

E. coli O157 Chickens (U.K.) 3.8% Cooper and others 2007

E. coli O157 Goats (U.K.) 28% Cooper and others 2007

E. coli O157:H7 Deer (US) 3/32 pellets 9.4% Keene and others 1997

E. coli O157 Deer (U.S.) 2.4% d Sargeant and others

1999

E. coli O157:H7 Deer (U.S.) 0.5% e Fischer and others 2001

E. coli O157:H7 Deer (U.S.) 0.25% f Renter and others 2001

E. coli O157:H7 Deer (U.S.) 0.3 - 0.4% g Dunn and others 2004

E. coli O157 Rabbits ? Pritchard and others

2001 ; Leclercq and
Mahillon 2003

E. coli O157:H7 Ducks ? Leclercq and Mahillon

2003

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