I was recently researching about dogs getting Ecoli but couldn't find anything. Can you help me?

Question

I want to know how dogs can get Ecoli but it's hard to find any information. Does anyone know or have someplace I can look it up at.

Answer 1

The enteric E. coli are divided on the basis of virulence properties into enterotoxigenic (ETEC, causative agent of diarrhea in humans, pigs, sheep, goats, cattle, dogs and horses), enteropathogenic (EPEC, causative agent of diarrhea in humans, rabbits, dogs, cats and horses), enteroinvasive (EIEC, found only in humans), verotoxigenic (VTEC, found in pigs, cattle, dogs and cats), enterohaemorragic (EHEC, found in humans, cattle and goats), attaching-effacing (AEEC, collects E. coli found among EPEC in humans, EHEC in humans, cattle and goats, and porcine strains that colonize the gut in a manner similar to human EPEC strains) and enteroaggregative E. coli (EAggEC, found only in humans
A "strain" of E. coli is a group with some particular characteristics that make it distinguishable from other E. coli strains. These differences are often detectable only on the molecular level, however they may result in changes to the physiology or lifecycle of the bacterium, for example leading to pathogenicity. Different strains of E. coli live in different kinds of animals, so it is possible to tell whether fecal material in water came from humans or from birds, for example
http://www.adopt-a-greyhound.org/advice/haemhorragic.html
http://jcm.asm.org/cgi/content/full/40/10/3586
http://goliath.ecnext.com/comsite5/bin/pdinventory.pl?pdlanding=1&referid=2750&item_id=0199-2779571

Answer 2

E. coli is a very common bacteria which lives in the gut of most mammals. Various subtypes can cause diseases in animals or in people, but usually it does them no harm.

Answer 3

sorry cannot find anything for you either other than i found dogs can get ecoli by eating cat feces.