Detection of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in the beef marketed in Malaysia

• Main Authors: Radu, Son, Abdul Mutalib, Shahilah, Rahmat Ali, Gulam Rusul, Ahmad, Zainori, Morigaki, Tadaaki, Asai, Norio, Kim, Yung Bu, Okuda, Jun, Nishibuchi, Mitsuaki
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: American Society for Microbiology 1998
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/51745/1/51745.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/51745/7/radu-et-al-1998-detection-of-escherichia-coli-o157-h7-in-the-beef-marketed-in-malaysia.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/51745/; http://aem.asm.org/content/64/3/1153.abstract
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

Twelve strains of Escherichia coli O157:H7 were isolated from 9 of 25 beef samples purchased from retail stores in Malaysia. These strains produced Shiga toxin 2 with or without Shiga toxin 1 and had the eae gene and a 60- MDa plasmid. The antibiograms and the profiles of the arbitrarily primed PCR of the strains were diverse, suggesting that the strains may have originated from diverse sources.