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Improving Detection of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli by Molecular Methods by Reducing the Interference of Free Shiga Toxin-Encoding Bacteriophages
1 Nov 2014
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Detection of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) by culture methods is advisable to identify the pathogen, but recovery of the strain responsible for the disease is not always possible. The use of DNA-based methods (PCR, quantitative PCR [qPCR], or genomics) targeting virulence genes offers fast and robust alternatives. However, detection of stx is not always indicative of STEC because stx can be...
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