Vero cytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 in beefburgers linked to an outbreak of diarrhoea, haemorrhagic colitis and haemolytic uraemic syndrome in Britain
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- 1 November 1994
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Letters in Applied Microbiology
- Vol. 19 (5) , 304-307
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-765x.1994.tb00461.x
Abstract
Vero cytotoxin (VT)-producing Escherichia coli O157 (0157 VTEC) were isolated from a raw beefburger obtained from a retail source linked to a small community outbreak of 0157 VTEC infection in Wales. Strains from the meat and from seven of eight patients belonged to phage type 49 and were indistinguishable by their VT-type, plasmid content and hybridization with DNA of a VT-encoding phage from an 0157 VTEC strain. This first report of the isolation of 0157 VTEC from a beef product in Britain supports the view that there is a bovine reservoir for this organism.Keywords
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