Use of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for epidemiological study of Escherichia coli O157:H7 during a food-borne outbreak
- 1 July 1995
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- Vol. 61 (7), 2806-8
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.61.7.2806-2808.1995
Abstract
Food and patient isolates from an Escherichia coli O157:H7 outbreak associated with undercooked ground beef were characterized by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and Shiga-like toxin genotype. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis confirmed the epidemiologically implicated source of the two-state outbreak and differentiated between outbreak and sporadic strains.Keywords
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