ABSTRACT
Entrohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 is a major food borne pathogen causing severe disease in humans worldwide. Healthy cattle
are the reservoir of Escherichia coli O157:H7, and bovine food products and fresh produce contaminated with bovine waste are the most common source for disease out breaks in the United States. Escherichia coli O157:H7 also survives well in the environment. The abilities to cause human disease, colonize the bovine gastrointestinal tract, and require that Escherichia coli O157:H7 adapt to a wide variety of conditions. Three major virulence of factors of Escherichia coli O157:H7 have been identified including shiga toxins, products of the pathogenicity island called the locus of enterocyte effacement, and product of he F-like plasmid PO157. Among these virulence factors, the role of PO157 is least understood.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.0 CHAPTER ONE
1.1 INTRODUCTION TO ESCHERICIAH COLI O157:H7
2.0 CHAPTER TWO
2.1 EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ESCHERICIAH COLI O157:H7
2.2 PATHOGENICITY OF ESCHERICIAH COLI O157:H7
2.3 MODE OF TRANSMISSION
3.0 CHAPTER THREE
3.1 SYMPTOMS OF ESCHERICIAH COLI O157:H7
3.2 THE PROGNOSIS FOR SOMEONE INFECTED WITH ESCHERICIAH COLI O157:H7
3.3 DIAGNOSIS OF ESCHERICIAH COLI O157:H7 INFECTION
3.4 TREATMENT OF ESCHERICIAH COLI O157:H7
3.5 PREVENTION OF ESCHERICIAH COLI O157:H7
4.0 CHAPTER FOUR
4.1 CONCLUSION
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