Foodborne Illness

Breakthrough Reported In Combating The Growing Risk From E. coli Food Poisoning

Published in Vaccine Weekly, May 9th, 2001

Certain pathogenic strains of Escherichia coli appear to harpoon themselves into intestine lining cells in order to colonize large sections of the gut, scientists at Imperial College in London have observed.

The researchers, reporting the breakthrough in the new edition of BBSRC Business on April 5, 2001, hope that by understanding how the bacteria latch onto and colonize their host, they will be able to design novel drugs and vaccines against the bacteria. The team is focusing their research on the O157:H7 strain of E. coli, which caused the death of 21 people in Lanarkshire, Scotland, in 1996 and has more than 73,000 cases reported annually in the...

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