Mistaken identity cleared up of foodborne pathogen causing severe symptoms in children
Novel real-time PCR method might become diagnostic tool targeting emerging bacterium responsible for food poisoning outbreaks. The prevalence of pathogenic E. coli has meant the frequent misidentification of a similar bacterium of the Escherichia genus. E. albertii is an emerging zoonotic foodborne pathogen, first isolated in Bangladesh in 1991. Large-scale outbreaks of food poisoning caused … Read more
