SYTTY
HAZARD OF ANIMAL SHIGATOXIC ESCHERICHIA COLI FOR HUMAN HEALTH
Project leader: Sinikka Pelkonen, National Veterinary and Food
Research Institute, Kuopio Regional Laboratory, P.O. Box 92, FIN-70701
Kuopio, Finland, tel. +358-17-201 458, +358-9-3931826, e-mail: Sinikka.Pelkonen@eela.fi
PUBLICATIONS
(Updated May 15, 2002)
Articles in international scientific journals
Pohjanvirta, T., Seppänen, V., Pelkonen, S. 1999. Shiga toxin-producing E. coli in Finnish calves: prevalence and role in diarrhea. Acta Clinica Belgica 54-1:49
Seppänen, V., Pohjanvirta, T., Pelkonen, S. 1999. Detection of shiga toxin-producing E. coli from stool samples. Acta Clinica Belgica 54-1:42.
Kobayashi, H., Shimada, J., Nakazawa, M., Morozumi, T., Pohjanvirta, T., Pelkonen, S., Yamamoto, K. 2001. Prevalence and characteristics of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli from healthy cattle in Japan. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 67:484-489.
Submitted articles
Kobayashi, H., Pohjanvirta, T., Pelkonen, S. Prevalence and Characteristics of Intimin- and Shiga Toxin- Producing Escherichia coli from Gulls, Pigeons and Broilers in Finland. (submitted manuscript)
Articles in international scientific compilation works and international scientific conference proceedings
Seppänen, V., Pohjanvirta, T., Heinikainen, S., Pelkonen, S. 2001. A longitudinal study on STEC epidemiology in two Finnish cattle herds. Epidemiology of VTEC, Verocytotoxigenic E. coli in Europe. An EU CA Project (CT98-3935), Dublin, 8.-10.2.2001. Proceedings, p. 134.
Kobayashi, H., Pohjanvirta, T., Hirvelä-Koski, V., Pelkonen, S.
2000. Prevalence and Characteristics of stx and eae Positive Escherichia
coli in Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) and Gulls (Larus ridibundus and L.
argentatus). Conference on Pathogenicity and Virulence of VTEC, Verocytotoxigenic
E. coli in Europe, EU concerted action CT98-3935, 8.-10.11.1999, Liège,
Belgium. (Proceedings in press).