Food poisoning from raw horse meat contaminated with Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 linked to nationwide spread of closely related strains, Japan, 2023

ABSTRACT In August 2023, 74 symptomatic patients developed Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O157 infection after consuming raw horse meat processed at a meat shop in Yamagata, Japan. To investigate the outbreak, we conducted multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA), whol...

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Principais autores:	Junji Seto, Kenichi Lee, Yohei Matoba, Hidemasa Izumiya, Mayu Suzuki, Tatsuya Ikeda, Katsumi Mizuta, Yo Sugawara, Motoyuki Sugai, Yukihiro Akeda, Sunao Iyoda
Formato:	Artigo
Idioma:	Inglês
Publicado em:	American Society for Microbiology 2026-05-01
coleção:	Microbiology Spectrum
Assuntos:	Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli STEC O157 raw horse meat multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis whole-genome sequencing
Acesso em linha:	https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.04115-25
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