TY - JOUR AU - Mora, Azucena AU - Blanco, Miguel AU - Blanco, Jesús E AU - Dahbi, Ghizlane AU - López, Cecilia AU - Justel, Paula AU - Alonso, María Pilar AU - Echeita, Aurora AU - Bernárdez, María Isabel AU - González, Enrique A AU - Blanco, Jorge PY - 2007 DO - 10.1186/1471-2180-7-13 SN - 14712180 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/7422 AB - BACKGROUND: Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) have emerged as pathogens that can cause food-borne infections and severe and potentially fatal illnesses in humans, such as haemorrhagic colitis (HC) and haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS). In... LA - eng PB - BioMed Central (BMC) KW - Adhesins, Bacterial KW - Animals KW - Cattle KW - Colony Count, Microbial KW - Escherichia coli KW - Escherichia coli O157 KW - Escherichia coli Proteins KW - Food Microbiology KW - Meat KW - Serotyping KW - Shiga Toxin KW - Spain KW - Virulence Factors TI - Serotypes, virulence genes and intimin types of Shiga toxin (verocytotoxin)-producing Escherichia coli isolates from minced beef in Lugo (Spain) from 1995 through 2003 TY - journal article ER -