Rapid detection and isolation of shiga-like toxin (verocytotoxin)-producing Escherichia coli by direct testing of individual enterohemolytic colonies from washed sheep blood agar plates in the VTEC-RPLA assay
- 1 November 1996
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 34 (11) , 2812-4
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.34.11.2812-2814.1996
Abstract
By combining the enterohemolysin test and the VTEC-RPLA test (specific for the detection of Shiga-like toxin I [SLT-I], SLT-II, and SLT-IIc), single colonies of SLT-producing Escherichia coli were found to constitute between 0.03 and 68.1% of the coliform flora in human stool cultures and were isolated and characterized within 72 to 96 h.Keywords
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