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When STEC are your target, where do you aim?
Mick Bosilevac, Ph.D., a research microbiologist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Meat Animal Research Center, Meat Safety and Quality Research Unit, has a good piece about testing for...
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Microbiologists discover how gut bacterial resources are hijacked to promote...
UT Southwestern Medical Center microbiologists have identified key bacteria in the gut whose resources are hijacked to spread harmful foodborne E. coli infections and other intestinal illnesses. Though...
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E. coli outbreak spreading in Germany; 80 sick, dozens hospitalized
Two victims of a potentially fatal strain of E. coli have been placed on artificial respiration machines, a Frankfurt hospital said Monday, while hospitals across Germany were reporting a surge in...
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3 dead in German E. coli outbreak; more than 400 sick
The food safety news from Germany continues to be disturbing. Below is a translation of a German article, so excuse any inaccuracies. The killer germ called EHEC now appeared three lives: In Lower...
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EHEC on Dutch beetroot sprouts not same strain as in Germany
Look for something and it will be found. But is anyone else concerned about the E. coli being found on European produce, even if it is not the O104 outbreak strain? EU officials said on Wednesday...
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Best in show: dog show leads to E. coli outbreak in Sweden
Around 50 dog owners and several dogs are believed to have been infected with enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) following a dog show in eastern Sweden. "We’re right in the middle of investigating where...
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Most German E. coli-in-sprouts patients have recovered well, except for the...
Maybe something was lost in translation, but Prof. Christian Gerloff, Head of Neurology at the Hamburg-Eppendorf University Hospital (UKE), told the annual congress of the German Society for Neurology...
View ArticleSix-year-old girl dies from E. coli in Germany
The translation is rough and details sketchy, but Focus is reporting a 6-year-old girl from Hamburg died over the weekend from the effects of EHEC, which probably means some strain of shiga-toxin...
View ArticleFour more cases of EHEC – E. coli O157 — in Hamburg
Aerztezeitung.de is reporting that four more cases of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) have emerged in Hamburg, Germany, following the death of a 6-year-old girl last week. An 11-year-old boy...
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