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Appl Environ Microbiol, March 1998, p. 1153-1156, Vol. 64, No. 3
0099-2240/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Detection of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in the Beef Marketed in Malaysia

Son Radu,¹ Shahilah Abdul Mutalib,¹ Gulam Rusul,² Zainori Ahmad,² Tadaaki Morigaki,³ Norio Asai,³ Yung Bu Kim,^4, Jun Okuda,⁴ and Mitsuaki Nishibuchi^4,*

Department of Biotechnology¹ and Department of Food Science,² Faculty of Food Science and Biotechnology, University Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia, and Department of Microbiology, Kyoto Prefectural Institute of Hygienic and Environmental Sciences, Fushimi-ku,³ and Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida, Sakyo-ku,⁴ Kyoto, Japan

Received 7 July 1997/Accepted 17 December 1997

Twelve strains of Escherichia coli O157:H7 were isolated from 9 of 25 beef samples purchased from retail stores in Malaysia. These strains produced Shiga toxin 2 with or without Shiga toxin 1 and had the eae gene and a 60-MDa plasmid. The antibiograms and the profiles of the arbitrarily primed PCR of the strains were diverse, suggesting that the strains may have originated from diverse sources.

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^* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, 46 Shimoadachi-cho, Yoshida, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-01, Japan. Phone: 81-75-753-7367. Fax: 81-75-753-7350. E-mail: nishibuc{at}med.kyoto-u.ac.jp.

Present address: Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Pusan National University, Pusan 602-739, Korea.

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