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CERTAIN hæmolytic strains of E. coli are associated with œdema disease and gastro-enteritis of young pigs. Timoney reproduced œdema disease in pigs by injecting supernatant material of the centrifuged intestinal contents from pigs which had died of this disease8. Since then, Erskine et al., Sojka et al. and Sweeney et al. have successfully reproduced the disease by injecting bacterial extracts prepared from hæmolytic strains of E. coli2,4,6. These reports suggest that œdema disease is caused by absorption of a toxic substance produced by specific strains of hæmolytic E. coli.
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CHOPRA, S., BLACKWOOD, A. Toxic Action of Hæmolytic Escherichia coli isolated from Pigs. Nature 203, 667 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/203667a0
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