Introduction to the food safety concerns of verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 228, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 331-332

  Hussein, Hussein S ^a   Omaye, Stanley T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cattle; Escherichia coli; Food borne pathogens; Sheep; Verotoxins

Indexed keywords

VEROTOXIN; SHIGA TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BEEF CATTLE; BOVIDS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EATING HABIT; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O103; ESCHERICHIA COLI O111; ESCHERICHIA COLI O118; ESCHERICHIA COLI O145; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI O166; ESCHERICHIA COLI O26; EVALUATION; FOOD POISONING; FOOD PROCESSING; FOOD SAFETY; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTESTINE ADAPTATION; MEAT; MEAT INDUSTRY; NONHUMAN; SEROTYPE; SHEEP; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; FOOD CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; BOVIDAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; OVIS ARIES;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD POISONING; HUMANS; SHIGA TOXINS;

EID: 0141569415     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153537020322800401     Document Type: Article

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