"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.
| Descriptor ID |
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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| 2011 | 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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Antimicrobial and antimotility agent use in persons with shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 infection in FoodNet Sites. Clin Infect Dis. 2011 May; 52(9):1130-2.