Table 1.

Analysis techniques used to search enteropathogens in feces specimens from suckling and dairy calves, according to laboratories in French departments

Enteropathogens	Departments
	Cantal	Vendée	Saône et Loire	Pyrénées Atlantiques	Finistère
Cryptosporidiuma	Heine staining	Modified Ziehl-Nielsen method	ELISAb	Sucrose	Sucrose
E. coli K99	ELISA	Mincac medium for isolation + serotyping	ELISA + bacteriology	ELISA	Bacteriology serotyping
Rotavirus	ELISA	ELISA	ELISA	ELISA	ELISA
Coronavirus	ELISA	ELISA	ELISA	ELISA	Precipitation on agar medium
Salmonella	Selenite isolation	Rambach’s medium for isolation + SSd	Rambach’s medium for isolation + SS	Hektoen’s medium isolation	Smid’s medium isolation

^aFor Cryptosporidium, each fecal specimen was examined at INRA (Tours) by sucrose method.

^bELISA: enzyme linked immunosorbent assay.

^cMinca: mineral casaminoacid.

^dSS: Salmonella and Shigella medium.