Presence of shiga toxin-producing escherichia coli o-groups in small and very-small beef-processing plants and resulting ground beef detected by a multiplex polymerase chain reaction assay

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 789-795

  Svoboda, Amanda L ^a   Dudley, Edward G ^a   Debroy, Chitrita ^a   Mills, Edward W ^a   Cutter, Catherine N ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEEF; CARCASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD SAFETY; GOVERNMENT; MEAT INDUSTRY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SMEAR;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; MEAT; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PENNSYLVANIA; SEROTYPING; SHIGA TOXIN; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84883329511     PISSN: 15353141     EISSN: 15567125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2012.1445     Document Type: Article

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