Update on E. coli outbreak in Germany, Health Protection Agency, UK (June 13 2011, edited)
E.coli "essentially wants to be inside the guts of warm-blooded animals", he says, but pathogenic strains can be found in between 10-15% of dairy herds - which means a minority of manure is contaminated with it. That manure - and the E.coli it carries - can end up on lettuce leave...
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The CDC declared the E coli outbreak linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounders over after 104 cases across 14 states and at least one death.
Federal officials say E. coli food poisoning linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers has sickened at least 49 people in 10 states.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tracked 49 cases across 10 states, and suspects slivered onions served on Quarter Pounders as a likely source of contamination.
However, because some typing techniques do not distinguish all APs, in the event of an outbreak, it may be beneficial to do a complete allele profile characterization. If one wishes to track outbreak strains geographically and do intra... G Killgore,A Thompson,S Johnson,... - 《Journal of...
coli and enteroaggregative E. coli strains. However, the genome of the German outbreak strain can be distinguished from those of other O104:H4 strains because it contains a prophage encoding Shiga toxin 2 and a distinct set of additional virulence and antibiotic-resistance factors. Conclusions: ...
November 20, 2018 -The CDC, along with theFDA, announces it is investigating amultistate outbreak of E. coli infections most likely linked to romaine lettuce. November 26, 2018 -In an update,the FDA reports that 43 people from 12 states have been infected. ...