Occurrence of Shiga-like toxin-producing Escherichia coli in retail fresh seafood, beef, lamb, pork, and poultry from grocery stores in Seattle, Washington

Authors

Mansour Samadpour, University of Washington
Jerry Ongerth, University of WollongongFollow
J. Liston, University of Washington
Nhiem Tran, Childrens Hospital Medical Center
Dong Nguyen, Childrens Hospital Medical Center
Thomas S. Whittam, Pennsylvania State University
Richard Wilson, Pennsylvania State University
Phillip I. Tarr, University of Washington

RIS ID

21825

Publication Details

Samadpour, M., Ongerth, J. E., Liston, J., Tran, N., Nguyen, D., Whittam, T. S., Wilson, R. A. & Tarr, P. I. (1994). Occurrence of Shiga-like toxin-producing Escherichia coli in retail fresh seafood, beef, lamb, pork, and poultry from grocery stores in Seattle, Washington. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 60 (3), 1038-1040.

Abstract

Fresh meat, poultry, and seafood purchased from Seattle area grocery stores were investigated for the presence of Shiga-like toxin-producing Escherichia coli by using DNA probes for Shiga-like toxin (SLT) genes I and II. Of the 294 food samples tested, 17% had colonies with sequence homology to SLT I and/or SLT II genes.