Escherichia coli 0157:H7 has been associated with a number of waterborne outbreaks, but it has never been recovered from an implicated environment. This paper reports on an August 1999 outbreak of E. coli 0157:H7 associated with swimming in Battle Ground Lake in Clark County, Washington. E. ...
spinach) are the second most common cause ofE. coliO157:H7 outbreaks; this has been an important and difficult food safety problem for more than two decades. The problem has only grown in recent years, with multiple large, widely publicized outbreaks. Raw dairy products (unpasteurized milk, ...
spinach) are the second most common cause ofE. coliO157:H7 outbreaks; this has been an important and difficult food safety problem for more than two decades. The problem has only grown in recent years, with multiple large, widely publicized outbreaks. Raw dairy products (unpasteurized milk, ...
aAs reports of E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks have become more common, greater efforts have been made to develop fast and reliable methods for its detection. PCR has become the method of choice for pathogen detection because, contrary to culture isolation and serological tests, PCR methods provide fa...
coli O157:H7. Mechanically tenderized (a.k.a. blade-tenderized) steaks have emerged as a vehicle of multiple E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks in the last 20 years. Ordinarily, if steaks and other intact cuts of beef are contaminated with STEC, that contamination should only be on the surface ...
Outbreaks of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection associated with eating alfalfa sprouts--Michigan... (cover story)Focuses on outbreaks of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections in Virginia and Michigan during June and July of 1997, and examines whether eating alfalfa sprouts was associated with these ...
Mechanically tenderized (a.k.a. blade-tenderized) steaks have emerged as a vehicle of multipleE. coliO157:H7 outbreaks in the last 20 years. Ordinarily, if steaks and other intact cuts of beef are contaminated with STEC, that contamination should only be on the surface and simply cooking the...
E. coliO157:H7 is commonly found in cattle and poultry, and outbreaks have of disease have been associated with cattle and bovine products. There are reports of contamination from unpasteurized apple juice, hamburger meat, radish sprouts, lettuce, and potatoes, as well as other food sources. ...
Victims were infected with E. coli 0157:H7, a type of bacteria that produces a dangerous toxin. It causes about 74,000 infections in the U.S. annually, leading to more than 2,000 hospitalizations and 61 deaths each year, according to CDC. ...
Investigations have indicated that the produce involved in these outbreaks was most likely contaminated in the growing field with E. coli O157:H7 of animal origin. Bacterial persistence on foods or in the production environment can be augmented by biofilm formation. However, strains of E. coli ...