Escherichia coli O157 in farm animals, C.S. Stewart and H.J. Flint : book review

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Extracted from text ... Book review - Boekresensie Escherichia coli O157 in farm animals Edited by C S Stewart and H J Flint 1999. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, 256 pp., hard cover. ?45 (US$85). ISBN 0 85199 332 X. This book results from a workshop held in 1998 to discuss the growing problem of food poisoning due to E. coli O157. A huge research effort in the past decades has resulted in a much better understanding of the complexity of pathogenic factors that are pro-duced by some strains of E. coli. E. coli O157 be-longs to the verotoxin-producing group of E. coli, responsible for haemorrhagic enteritis in man and animals, as well as haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) and thrombocytic ..