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- Prevalence of Farm and Slaughterhouse Workers Carrying Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli in Korea
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Sahyun Hong, Seung Eun Song, Kyung Hwan Oh, Seung Hak Kim, Seok ju Yoo, Hyun Sul Lim, Mi Sun Park
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Osong Public Health Res Perspect. 2011;2(3):198-201. Published online December 31, 2011
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Objectives
The aim of this study was to investigate the distribution of Shiga toxin (Stx) gene-positive stool samples from dairy farmer and slaughterhouse workers in Gyeonggi-Do province.
Methods
A total of 621 samples from healthy farmers and 198 samples from slaughterhouse workers were screened by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for Shiga toxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC) infection on stool samples.
Results
The PCR product of Stx-encoding... |
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