Characterisation of multidrug-resistant, avian pathogenic-like Escherichia coli O78 from dairy-bred calves with atypical colisepticaemia
The objective of this work was to identify and characterise the causative agent(s) of an atypical septicaemic syndrome in 3- to 6-month-old calves. Nine cattle from three Scottish dairy farms were subject to post-mortem in 2020 and 2021, and tissue samples were screened via routine bacteriology. Escherichia coli was is...