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Extended phage-typing scheme for<i>Escherichia coli</i>0157:H7
1 Dec 1990
Abstract excerpt
In Canada, the number of human isolates of verotoxigenic (VT + ve) Escherichia coli O157:H7 from diarrhoeal cases and haemolytic uraemic syndrome and haemorrhagic colitis has increased from 25 in 1982 to 2384 in 1989. A total of 3273 VT + ve E. coli O157:H7 strains (3255 strains isolated in Canada and 18 isolates from other countries) were phage typed. The phage typing scheme has been extended from 14 to 62 phage...
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