Development of 11-Plex MOL-PCR Assay for the Rapid Screening of Samples for Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli

Strains of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) are a serious threat to the public health, with approximately half of the STEC related food-borne illnesses attributable to contaminated beef. We developed an assay that was able to screen samples for several important STEC associated serogrou...

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Main Authors: Travis A Woods, Heather M Mendez, Sandy Ortega, Xiaorong Shi, David Marx, Jianfa Bai, Rodney A Moxley, T. G. Nagaraja, Steven W Graves, Alina Deshpande
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fcimb.2016.00092/full