Jay H. Lewis

TL;DR: This E coli O157:H7 outbreak, the largest reported, resulted from errors in meat processing and cooking and measures should be developed to reduce meat contamination.

TL;DR: Infection with E. coli O157:H7 should be considered in all patients with bloody diarrhea, the hemolytic uremic syndrome, or thrombotic throm bocytopenic purpura because the infection can masquerade as gastrointestinal bleeding of noninfectious cause.

TL;DR: The investigation sought to define the extent of the outbreak, confirm its source, and determine how the product became contaminated.

TL;DR: This study shows that E. coli O157:H7 isolates systematically collected from a single geographic region over a defined time period exhibit considerable diversity in plasmid content and toxin genotypes and that the toxin genotype of the infecting strain may influence the risk of developing microangiopathic sequelae.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that E. coli O157:H7 isolates systematically collected from a single geographic region over a defined time period exhibit considerable diversity in plasmid content and toxin genotype.