Seasonal prevalence and characterization of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli on pork carcasses at three steps of the harvest process at two commercial processing plants in the US
I. J. Nastasijevic, J. W. Schmidt, M. Boskovic, M. Glisic, N. Kalchayanand, S. D. Shackelford, T. L. Wheeler, M. Koohmaraie, J. M. Bosilevac
This study examines STEC prevalence on pork carcasses at different processing stages, finding that scalding reduces contamination and most STEC isolates are not severe disease-causing strains.
bioRxiv · Jul 15, 2020Microbiology