Asymptomatic healthy slaughterhouse workers in South Korea carrying Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 41-47

  Hong, Sahyun ^a   Oh, Kyung Hwan ^a   Cho, Seung Hak ^a   Kim, Jong Chul ^a   Park, Mi Sun ^a   Lim, Hyun Sul ^b   Lee, Bok Kwon ^a  

^a Korea National Institute of Health   (South Korea)

^b Dongguk University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic carriage; Slaughter; STEC; Stx

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC CODE; GENOTYPE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LIVESTOCK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; SOUTH KOREA; VERO CELL;

ABATTOIRS; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CYTOTOXICITY TESTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHIGA TOXINS; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; VERO CELLS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 65449186173     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2009.00545.x     Document Type: Article

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