title: Examination of retail chickens and sausages in Britain for vero cytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli.
abstract: Samples from chickens and pork sausages were examined for the presence of Vero cytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli by using DNA probes for the Vero cytotoxin genes. Hybridization was detected in 25% of the 184 sausage samples, but none of the chickens was positive. No E. coli O157:H7 strains were isolated, and serotyping showed that the Vero cytotoxin-producing E. coli strains belonged to eight different O serogroups and that six strains had an unidentifiable O antigen.
authors.affiliation: Division of Enteric Pathogens, Central Public Health Laboratory, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: H R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Cheasty
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rowe
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001427:Bacterial Toxins / Q000096:biosynthesis; D002645:Chickens; D015342:DNA Probes; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism; D005516:Food Microbiology; D008460:Meat; D012703:Serotyping; D022622:Shiga Toxin 1; D013552:Swine; D006113:United Kingdom
chemical_list: D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D015342:DNA Probes; D022622:Shiga Toxin 1