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Water-Borne Illness
Starving Bacteria Elude Diagnostic Tests
December 31st, 2000
The virulent Escherichia coli O157:H7 bacterium can lose its ability to be detected by certain diagnostic tests if it has experienced extended periods without food, said researchers from the National Institute of Health Sciences in Japan. They reported their results in the December 2000 issue of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology (Y. Hara-Kudo et al., "Loss of O157 O antigenicity of verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 surviving under starvation conditions," Appl Environ Microbiol, 2000;66:5540-5543). All bacteria have certain proteins they display on their surface. These proteins, called antigens,...
Source: Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA (2000-12-31)
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