Liha töötlemine
tent diarrhea. They have the characteristic this was the only microbe to be declared a
pattern of aggregative adherence on Hep-2 “food adulterant” by officials of the U.S.
cells. government. This implies that if E. coli
EPEC or enterotoxigenic E. coli has been O157 : H7 is found in a batch of ground beef,
defined as “diarrheagenic E. coli, belonging the producer has violated the law. Thus, mil-
to serogroups epidemiologically incrimi- lions of pounds of ground beef have been
nated as pathogens but whose pathogenic recalled and destroyed in the past several
mechanisms have not been proven to be years because of this ruling in the United
related to heat-liable enterotoxins (LT), heat- States.
stable enterotoxins (ST), or to Shigella-like
invasiveness. The serotypes included in
Yersinia enterocolitica