Examination of retail chickens and sausages in Britain for vero cytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli |
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| Authors: | H R Smith T Cheasty D Roberts A Thomas B Rowe |
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| Institution: | Division of Enteric Pathogens, Central Public Health Laboratory, London, United Kingdom. |
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| Abstract: | Samples from chickens and pork sausages were examined for the presence of Vero cytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli by using DNA probes for the Vero cytotoxin genes. Hybridization was detected in 25% of the 184 sausage samples, but none of the chickens was positive. No E. coli O157:H7 strains were isolated, and serotyping showed that the Vero cytotoxin-producing E. coli strains belonged to eight different O serogroups and that six strains had an unidentifiable O antigen. |
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