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Escherichia coli O157

"Escherichia coli O157" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A verocytotoxin-producing serogroup belonging to the O subfamily of Escherichia coli which has been shown to cause severe food-borne disease. A strain from this serogroup, serotype H7, which produces SHIGA TOXINS, has been linked to human disease outbreaks resulting from contamination of foods by E. coli O157 from bovine origin.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Escherichia coli O157" by people in this website by year, and whether "Escherichia coli O157" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 24 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2008
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