Public health approach to detection of non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli: Summary of two outbreaks and laboratory procedures

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 283-289

  Schaffzin, J K ^a   Coronado, F ^a   Dumas, N B ^a   Root, T P ^a   Halse, T A ^a   Schoonmaker Bopp, D J ^a   Lurie, M M ^a   Nicholas, D ^b   Gerzonich, B ^b   Johnson, G S ^a   Wallace, B J ^a   Musser, K A ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Community outbreaks; diarrhoea; Escherichia coli; foodborne infections; STEC

Indexed keywords

SHIGA TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOODY DIARRHEA; CIDER; COOPERATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FECES ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATHOGENESIS; PRISON; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INCIDENCE; NEW YORK; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHIGA TOXIN 1; SHIGA TOXIN 2; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84455203070     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268811000719     Document Type: Article

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