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- I thought about the E. coli and campylobacter and Clostridium difficile that were very likely an ongoing part of Davis's microbiota.† (source)
- They have a really elegant delivery system — they embed a virus inside a carrier bacterium, E. coli splice, doesn't get digested, bursts in the pylorus, and bingo!† (source)
- Officials were concerned about the spread of E. coli, the risk of typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery.† (source)
- And the same meat industry practices that endanger these workers have facilitated the introduction of deadly pathogens, such as E. coli 0157:H7, into America's hamburger meat, a food aggressively marketed to children.† (source)
- His client the next day could be a fast-food CEO trying to deal with an E. coli outbreak.† (source)
- In 1960, Stone presented a radical new theory of operon activity in E. coli and S. tabuli, and developed evidence for the physical nature of the inducer and represser substances.† (source)
- The E. coli outbreak was traced to beef from Michigan.
- E. coli 0157:H7 is a mutated version of a bacterium found abundantly in the human digestive system.† (source)
- But this was not the first outbreak of E. coli 0157:H7 linked to fast food hamburgers.† (source)
- E. coli 0157:H7 is resistant to acid, salt, and chlorine.† (source)
- Among the most dangerous are E. coli 0103, 0111, 026, 0121, and 0145.† (source)
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- E. coli 0157:H7 was rarely found in chicken.† (source)
- Some herds of American cattle may have been infected with E. coli 0157:H7 decades ago.† (source)
- Thirty-six people who'd recently eaten at Tiger Harry's had been sickened by E. coli 0157:H7.† (source)
- The Netherlands began to test ground beef for E. coli 0157:H7 in 1989.† (source)
- Around the same time, a dozen children in Finley, Washington, were sickened by E. coli 0157:H7.† (source)
- E. coli 0157:H7 was most likely responsible for some human illnesses thirty or forty years ago.† (source)
- Some people who are infected with E. coli 0157:H7 do not become ill.† (source)
- Tests of the hamburger patties disclosed the presence of E. coli 0157:H7.† (source)
- He thinks that the problem of E. coli 0157:H7 contamination in ground beef can be solved.† (source)
- E. coli 0157:H7 was first isolated in 1982; HIV was discovered the following year.† (source)
- A single animal infected with E. coli 0157:H7 can contaminate 32,000 pounds of that ground beef.† (source)
- Antibiotics have proven ineffective in treating illnesses caused by E. coli 0157:H7.† (source)
- An infection with E. coli 0157:H7 can be caused by as few as five organisms.† (source)
- In addition to E. coli 0157:H7, approximately sixty to one hundred other mutant E. coli organisms now produce Shiga toxins.† (source)
- At the time Colorado was one of only six states with the capability to perform DNA tests on samples of E. coli 0157:H7.† (source)
- The press release failed to mention that some ground beef from the same lot had indeed been tested — and had tested positive for E. coli 0157:H7.† (source)
- During the summer of 2002, ground beef from the ConAgra slaughterhouse in Greeley, Colorado, was linked to an outbreak of E. coli 0157:H7.† (source)
- On July 28, the USDA lab notified Gallegos that Lee Harding's hamburger was contaminated with the same strain of E. coli 0157:H7.† (source)
- E. coli 0157:H7, on the other hand, can release a powerful toxin called a "verotoxin" or a "Shiga toxin" — that attacks the lining of the intestine.† (source)
- People who are infected with HIV can appear healthy for years, while cattle infected with E. coli 0157:H7 show few signs of illness.† (source)
- A virus that carries the gene to produce Shiga toxins is now infecting previously harmless strains of E. coli.† (source)
- A recent USDA study found that during the winter about 1 percent of the cattle at feedlots carry E. coli 0157:H7 in their gut.† (source)
- State health officials had noticed a spike in the number of people suffering from E. coli 0157:H7 infections.† (source)
- Northern States Beef was also linked to a 1994 outbreak of E. coli 0157:H7 in Nebraska that sickened eighteen people.† (source)
- The heartiness and minute infectious dose of E. coli 0157:H7 allow the pathogen to be spread in many ways.† (source)
- The standard tests being used to find E. coli 0157:H7 do not detect the presence of these other bugs.† (source)
- The Jack in the Box outbreak received a great deal of attention from the media, alerting the public to the dangers of E. coli 0157:H7.† (source)
- In 1978, before the first known outbreak of E. coli 0157:H7, the USDA had 12,000 meat inspectors; now it has about 7,500.† (source)
- The American Meat Institute immediately filed a lawsuit in federal court to prevent the USDA from testing any ground beef for E. coli 0157:H7.† (source)
- Tests of the ground beef, which had been processed by the Bauer Meat Company, confirmed the presence of E. coli 0157:H7.† (source)
- Most E. coli bacteria help us digest food, synthesize vitamins, and guard against dangerous organisms.† (source)
- Officials at Hudson Foods were informed late in July of 1997 that its frozen hamburger patties had infected Lee Harding with E. coli 0157:H7.† (source)
- Efforts to eradicate E. coli 0157:H7 have been complicated by the fact that it is an extraordinarily hearty microbe that is easy to transmit.† (source)
- Six months after seemingly recovering from his bout of E. coli 0157:H7 food poisoning, Harding began to urinate blood.† (source)
- Person-to-person transmission has been responsible for a significant proportion of E. coli 0157:H7 illnesses.† (source)
- Children under the age of five, the elderly, and people with impaired immune systems are the most likely to suffer from illnesses caused by E. coli 0157:H7.† (source)
- On average, an infected person remains contagious for about two weeks, though in some cases E. coli 0157:H7 has been found in stool samples two to four months after an initial illness.† (source)
- Much like Jack in the Box, the leading chains have in recent years forced their suppliers to conduct frequent tests for E. coli 0157:H7 and other pathogens.† (source)
- When used properly, steam pasteurization cabinets can kill off most of the E. coli 0157:H7 and reduce the amount of bacteria on the meat's surface by as much as 90 percent.† (source)
- Like the multiple sex partners that helped spread the AIDS epidemic, the huge admixture of animals in most American ground beef plants has played a crucial role in spreading E. coli 0157:H7.† (source)
- In the eight years since the Jack in the Box outbreak, approximately half a million Americans, the majority of them children, have been made ill by E. coli 0157:H7.† (source)
- The CDC now estimates that roughly 37,000 Americans suffer food poisoning each year from non-0157 strains of E. coli, about 1,000 people are hospitalized, and about 25 die.† (source)
- Someone infected with E. coli 0157:H7, unsure about what has caused his or her symptoms and unaware of a local outbreak, may take over-the-counter medications that make the illness much worse.† (source)
- Recent findings that grass-fed cattle may be less likely to spread E. coli 0157:H7 have strengthened Lasater's determination to follow a different path.† (source)
- The companies that manufactured hamburger patties for Jack in the Box were required to test their beef every fifteen minutes for a wide range of dangerous microbes, including E. coli 0157:H7.† (source)
- Despite the discovery of tainted ground beef in the restaurant freezer, the Arkansas Department of Health could not conclusively link IBP meat to the El Dorado E. coli 0157:H7 outbreak.† (source)
- Dr. Patricia Griffin, one of the CDC's leading experts on E. coli 0157:H7, believes that food safety classes should be mandatory for fast food workers.† (source)
- Although the precise source of E. coli 0157:H7 contamination was never identified, some of the beef used by Jack in the Box came from an SIS-C plant — a Monfort slaughterhouse.† (source)
- Once the investigators realized that tainted ground beef had reached Nevada, a number of cases of severe food poisoning that might otherwise have been wrongly diagnosed were linked to E. coli 0157:H7.† (source)
- An investigation by the USDA's Office of Inspector General subsequently found that the plant had been shipping beef tainted with E. coli 0157:H7 for nearly two years.† (source)
- But E. coli 0157:H7 outbreaks have also been caused by contaminated bean sprouts, salad greens, cantaloupe, salami, raw milk, and unpasteurized apple cider.† (source)
- At the moment, little can be done for people with life-threatening E. coli 0157:H7 infections, aside from giving them fluids, blood transfusions, and dialysis.† (source)
- The USDA's recent decision to perform E. coli 0157:H7 tests on the ground beef it buys for schools, though commendable, was made more than seven years after the Jack in the Box outbreak.† (source)
- The company made no effort to warn the public or to recall the frozen patties for another three weeks, until the USDA found a second box of Hudson Foods patties contaminated with E. coli 0157:H7.† (source)
- And meatpacking plants would not be required to test for E. coli 0157:H7, a pathogen whose discovery might lead to immediate condemnation of their meat.† (source)
- E. coli 0157:H7 is shed in the stool, and people infected with the bug, even those showing no outward sign of illness, can easily spread it through poor hygiene.† (source)
- Nancy Donley, the president of Safe Tables Our Priority (STOP), an organization devoted to food safety, says it is hard to convey the suffering that E. coli 0157:H7 causes children.† (source)
- SURROUNDED BY PARENTS WHOSE children had died after eating hamburgers tainted with E. coli 0157:H7, President Clinton announced in July of 1996 that the USDA would finally adopt a science-based meat inspection system.† (source)
- According to Dr. Russell Cross, head of the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service, "The presence of bacteria in raw meat, including E. coli 0157:H7, although undesirable, is unavoidable, and not cause for condemnation of the product."† (source)
- McDonald's quietly cooperated with investigators from the CDC, providing ground beef samples that were tainted with E. coli 0157:H7 — samples that for the first time linked the pathogen to serious illnesses.† (source)
- It had shipped hamburger meat potentially contaminated with the same strain of E. coli 0157:H7 from at least May of 1997 until the third week of August, when the company voluntarily agreed to shut the plant.† (source)
- Feedlots have become an extremely efficient mechanism for "recirculating the manure," which is unfortunate, since E. coli 0157:H7 can replicate in cattle troughs and survive in manure for up to ninety days.† (source)
- In about 4 percent of reported E. coli 0157:H7 cases, the Shiga toxins enter the bloodstream, causing hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), which can lead to kidney failure, anemia, internal bleeding, and the destruction of vital organs.† (source)
- On September 29, 1993, his replacement, Michael R. Taylor, announced that E. coli 0157:H7 would henceforth be considered an illegal adulterant, that no ground beef contaminated with it could be sold, and that the USDA would begin random microbial testing to remove it from the nation's food supply.† (source)
- Much like the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) responsible for causing AIDS, the E. coli 0157:H7 bacterium is a newly emerged pathogen whose spread has been facilitated by recent social and technological changes.† (source)
- A few weeks later, USDA inspectors detected E. coli 0157:H7 in a sample of meat from the Supreme Beef plant, and the company voluntarily recalled 180,000 pounds of ground beef that had been shipped to eight states.† (source)
- "Press releases will not identify the specific recipients of product?' the USDA directive says, "unless the supplier chooses to release the information to the public:' A recent IBP press release, announcing the recall of more than a quarter of a million pounds of ground beef possibly tainted with E. coli 0157:H7, suggests that the industry's needs and those of consumers are not always the same.† (source)
- Although E. coli 0157:H7 has received a good deal of public attention, over the past two decades scientists have discovered more than a dozen other new foodborne pathogens, including Campylobacter jejuni, Cryptosporidium parvum, Cyclospora cayetanensis, Listeria monocytogenes, and Norwalk-like viruses.† (source)
- Nowhere does the press release mention, for example, that the E. coli 0157:H7 in IBP's ground beef was first detected not by one of the firm's own accredited laboratories, not by employees at the Geneseo, Illinois, IBP plant where the meat was produced, not by USDA inspectors — but by investigators from the Arkansas Department of Health, who found the pathogen in a package of IBP ground beef at Tiger Harry's restaurant in El Dorado, Arkansas.† (source)
- It said that his stool sample had tested positive for Escherichia coli 0157:H7, a virulent and potentially lethal foodborne pathogen.† (source)
- A single cell of the bacterium E. coli would, under ideal circumstances, divide every twenty minutes.† (source)
- In this way, it can be shown that in a single day, one cell of E. coli could produce a super-colony equal in size and weight to the entire planet earth.† (source)
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