Willshaw G A, Thirlwell J, Jones A P, Parry S, Salmon R L, Hickey M
Laboratory of Enteric Pathogens, Central Public Health Laboratory, London, UK.
Lett Appl Microbiol. 1994 Nov;19(5):304-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1472-765x.1994.tb00461.x.
Vero cytotoxin (VT)-producing Escherichia coli O157 (O157 VTEC) were isolated from a raw beefburger obtained from a retail source linked to a small community outbreak of O157 VTEC infection in Wales. Strains from the meat and from seven of eight patients belonged to phage type 49 and were indistinguishable by their VT-type, plasmid content and hybridization with DNA of a VT-encoding phage from an O157 VTEC strain. This first report of the isolation of O157 VTEC from a beef product in Britain supports the view that there is a bovine reservoir for this organism.
从一块生牛肉汉堡中分离出了产志贺毒素大肠杆菌O157（O157 VTEC），该牛肉汉堡来自威尔士一个与小规模社区O157 VTEC感染暴发有关的零售渠道。肉样和8名患者中7人的菌株属于噬菌体分型49，根据其毒素型、质粒含量以及与一株O157 VTEC菌株的产毒素噬菌体DNA的杂交情况无法区分。英国首次从牛肉制品中分离出O157 VTEC的这一报告支持了该病原体存在牛源宿主的观点。
