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Taxonomy Meets Public Health: The Case of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli.
Microbiology spectrum - 1 Jun 2014
Scheutz Flemming
Abstract excerpt
To help assess the clinical and public health risks associated with different Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains, an empirical classification scheme was used to classify STEC into five "seropathotypes" (seropathotype A [high risk] to seropathotypes D and E [minimal risk]). This definition is of considerable value in cases of human infection but is also problematic because not all STEC...
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