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Presence and characterization of shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli and other potentially diarrheagenic E. coli strains in retail meats.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Mar 2010
Xia Xiaodong, Meng Jianghong, McDermott Patrick F, Ayers Sherry, Blickenstaff Karen, Tran Thu-Thuy, Abbott Jason, Zheng Jie, Zhao Shaohua
Abstract excerpt
To determine the presence of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and other potentially diarrheagenic E. coli strains in retail meats, 7,258 E. coli isolates collected by the U.S. National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) retail meat program from 2002 to 2007 were scree...
Topics
- Animals
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Chlorocebus aethiops
- Cluster Analysis
- DNA Fingerprinting
- DNA, Bacterial
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli
- Epithelial Cells
- Escherichia coli Proteins