Sentences with phrase «coli outbreak strains»
A few months ago we showed that metagenomics allowed us to identify an E. coli outbreak strains from faecal samples and a few weeks ago a similar approach was shown by another group to deliver a leprosy genome from historical material.»
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Scientists at the Food and Drug Administration traced the toxic strain of E. coli to the California ranch after testing bacteria - tainted spinach leaves and matching them to fecal samples from a wild boar that had been killed on the farm — the first time an outbreak of E. coli poisoning from produce had been tracked directly to its source.
Collins and his colleagues exposed one culture of Escherichia coli — some strains of which colonize the human and animal gut; others of which are notorious for causing disease outbreaks — to increasing amounts of an antibiotic over time.
By studying strains from different past E. coli outbreaks with his techniques, Eppinger is able to measure the amount of toxin produced in each strain, which is a direct mediator of disease and shows how severe the resulting illness could be.