 Escherichia coli O157
"Escherichia coli O157" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A verocytotoxin-producing serogroup belonging to the O subfamily of Escherichia coli which has been shown to cause severe food-borne disease. A strain from this serogroup, serotype H7, which produces SHIGA TOXINS, has been linked to human disease outbreaks resulting from contamination of foods by E. coli O157 from bovine origin.
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D019453
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B03.440.450.425.325.300.800.250.500 B03.660.250.150.180.100.800.250.500
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| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Escherichia coli O157" by people in Profiles.
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Hoffman MA, Menge C, Casey TA, Laegreid W, Bosworth BT, Dean-Nystrom EA. Bovine immune response to shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli O157:H7. Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2006 Dec; 13(12):1322-7.
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Brandt J, Wong C, Mihm S, Roberts J, Smith J, Brewer E, Thiagarajan R, Warady B. Invasive pneumococcal disease and hemolytic uremic syndrome. Pediatrics. 2002 Aug; 110(2 Pt 1):371-6.
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Laegreid W, Hoffman M, Keen J, Elder R, Kwang J. Development of a blocking enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of serum antibodies to O157 antigen of Escherichia coli. Clin Diagn Lab Immunol. 1998 Mar; 5(2):242-6.
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